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Prosperity Gap, 2003 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2003; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Prosperity Gap, 2003 compilation covers 69 countries. Uzbekistan is highest, at 29.111; Luxembourg is lowest, at 0.497. The middle country reads 4.179. Against the 2002 compilation, 43 values changed (20 up, 23 down), 26 countries joined, 25 left.

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Prosperity Gap · Latest available · compiled 2003

HighestUzbekistan

29.111

LowestLuxembourg

0.497

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Prosperity Gap, 2003 compilation, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 69 countries · select a heading to sort

Prosperity Gap, 2003 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2003 reading29.111consumption2003
2Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2003 reading16.352consumption2003
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa16.133consumption2003.25
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2003 reading15.653consumption2003
5BeninBENWestern Africa · 2003 reading14.999consumption2003
6GambiaGMBWestern Africa13.583consumption2003.29
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa12.693consumption2003.67
8TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2003 reading11.721consumption2003
9NepalNPLSouthern Asia11.546consumption2003.25
10VenezuelaVENSouth America · 2003 reading11.533income2003
11HondurasHNDCentral America · 2003 reading11.428income2003
12NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa11.225consumption2003.67
13KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2003 reading10.749consumption2003
14El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2003 reading9.864income2003
15IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2003 reading9.454consumption2003
16GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2003 reading7.572consumption2003
17ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2003 reading7.283income2003
18EcuadorECUSouth America · 2003 reading7.195income2003
19PeruPERSouth America · 2003 reading6.949income2003
20PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2003 reading6.909income2003
21BhutanBTNSouthern Asia · 2003 reading6.581consumption2003
22PanamaPANCentral America · 2003 reading6.540income2003
23BrazilBRASouth America · 2003 reading6.445income2003
24ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2003 reading6.379consumption2003
25KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2003 reading5.879consumption2003

02In Prosperity Gap, 2003 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uzbekistan29.111
  2. 2Burkina Faso16.352
  3. 3Sierra Leone16.133
  4. 4Chad15.653
  5. 5Benin14.999

Lowest

  1. 69Luxembourg0.497
  2. 68Germany0.624
  3. 67Iceland0.674
  4. 66Norway0.681
  5. 65Finland0.737

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 4.179. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since the 2002 compilation

What changed between the 2002 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +26 / −25countries joined / left
  • 43values changed, of 43 in both
  • 20 · 23rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Austria+ Belgium+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bulgaria+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Denmark+ Ecuador+ Spain+ Finland+ Gambia+ Iceland+ Malaysia+ Namibia+ Nigeria+ Norway+ Nepal+ Philippines+ Portugal+ Sierra Leone+ Syria+ Chad+ Tajikistan+ Kosovo− Albania− Bolivia− Botswana− Switzerland− China− Côte d’Ivoire− Czechia− Djibouti− Fiji− Guinea− Guinea-Bissau− Jamaica− Jordan− Laos− Sri Lanka− Lesotho− Maldives− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Thailand− Uganda− Vietnam− Samoa− Zambia

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored
  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2003, from 2003 to 2003.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 69 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full
  • .csv

    For a spreadsheet or code

    69 rows · 3.6 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

    Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.

    Download prosperity-gap-2003-nations-inquiry.csv
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    The publisher’s original

    World Bank Group’s own file, on its own site.

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What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2003). Prosperity Gap, 2003 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/prosperity-gap/2003

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07Questions

Prosperity Gap, 2003 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest prosperity gap in Prosperity Gap, 2003 compilation?

Uzbekistan, at 29.111, of the 69 countries in the file.

How many countries does Prosperity Gap, 2003 compilation cover?

69.

Where can I download Prosperity Gap, 2003 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Prosperity Gap, 2003 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Prosperity Gap, 2023 compilation.

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