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Prosperity Gap, 2006 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2006; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Prosperity Gap, 2006 compilation covers 82 countries. Zambia is highest, at 23.1815; Luxembourg is lowest, at 0.4472. The middle country reads 2.8739. Against the 2005 compilation, 59 values changed (12 up, 47 down), 23 countries joined, 22 left.

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Prosperity Gap · Latest available · compiled 2006

HighestZambia

23.1815

LowestLuxembourg

0.4472

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, 2006 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 82 countries · select a heading to sort

Prosperity Gap, 2006 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1ZambiaZMBEastern Africa23.1815consumption2006.5
2BurundiBDIEastern Africa · 2006 reading16.9142consumption2006
3TogoTGOWestern Africa · 2006 reading15.6218consumption2006
4MaliMLIWestern Africa14.0728consumption2006.25
5HondurasHNDCentral America · 2006 reading10.2250income2006
6IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2006 reading9.8971consumption2006
7GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2006 reading7.5093consumption2006
8KiribatiKIRMicronesia · 2006 reading7.2003consumption2006
9KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2006 reading7.1884consumption2006
10BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2006 reading7.1510income2006
11VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2006 reading7.1171consumption2006
12PeruPERSouth America · 2006 reading7.0938income2006
13PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2006 reading7.0719income2006
14VenezuelaVENSouth America · 2006 reading6.5200income2006
15PanamaPANCentral America · 2006 reading6.3109income2006
16KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2006 reading5.9977consumption2006
17Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia5.5569consumption2006.5
18El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2006 reading5.3456income2006
19ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2006 reading5.2562income2006
20RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2006 reading5.0864income2006
21BulgariaBGREastern Europe · 2006 reading5.0681income2006
22BrazilBRASouth America · 2006 reading5.0660income2006
23MoroccoMARNorthern Africa5.0377consumption2006.91
24EcuadorECUSouth America · 2006 reading5.0258income2006
25ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2006 reading4.6485consumption2006

02In Prosperity Gap, 2006 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Zambia23.1815
  2. 2Burundi16.9142
  3. 3Togo15.6218
  4. 4Mali14.0728
  5. 5Honduras10.2250

Lowest

  1. 82Luxembourg0.4472
  2. 81Switzerland0.5506
  3. 80Austria0.5925
  4. 79Denmark0.5972
  5. 78Germany0.5974

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.8739. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since the 2005 compilation

What changed between the 2005 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −22countries joined / left
  • 59values changed, of 59 in both
  • 12 · 47rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burundi+ Bulgaria+ Switzerland+ Chile+ Guatemala+ Iraq+ Jordan+ Kiribati+ South Korea+ Sri Lanka+ Morocco+ Mali+ Malta+ Mauritius+ Malaysia+ Philippines+ Seychelles+ Syria+ Togo+ Thailand+ Uruguay+ Vietnam+ Zambia− Albania− Azerbaijan− Bangladesh− China− Republic of the Congo− Colombia− Micronesia− Gabon− Ghana− Kenya− Madagascar− Niger− Nicaragua− Pakistan− Rwanda− Senegal− Solomon Islands− Tunisia− Taiwan− Uganda− Yemen− South Africa

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 2006, from 2006 to 2006.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 82 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

    82 rows · 4.0 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download prosperity-gap-2006-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 (2006). Prosperity Gap, 2006 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/prosperity-gap/2006

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07Questions

Prosperity Gap, 2006 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest prosperity gap in Prosperity Gap, 2006 compilation?

Zambia, at 23.1815, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Prosperity Gap, 2006 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Prosperity Gap, 2006 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, 2006 compilation the newest?

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

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