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Prosperity Gap, 2007 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2007; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Prosperity Gap, 2007 compilation covers 73 countries. Niger is highest, at 18.4999; Luxembourg is lowest, at 0.4431. The middle country reads 2.4479. Against the 2006 compilation, 59 values changed (10 up, 49 down), 14 countries joined, 23 left.

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Prosperity Gap · Latest available · compiled 2007

HighestNiger

18.4999

LowestLuxembourg

0.4431

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, 2007 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 73 countries · select a heading to sort

Prosperity Gap, 2007 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa18.4999consumption2007.31
2LiberiaLBRWestern Africa · 2007 reading14.2399consumption2007
3TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa · 2007 reading13.6690consumption2007
4Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia · 2007 reading11.3906consumption2007
5GuineaGINWestern Africa · 2007 reading10.2043consumption2007
6IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2007 reading9.0585consumption2007
7TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2007 reading8.8400consumption2007
8LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia8.5903consumption2007.23
9CameroonCMRMiddle Africa · 2007 reading8.5194consumption2007
10PakistanPAKSouthern Asia8.2760consumption2007.5
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2007 reading7.7382consumption2007
12HondurasHNDCentral America · 2007 reading7.3532income2007
13Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa7.2599consumption2007.33
14KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2007 reading7.1756consumption2007
15PeruPERSouth America · 2007 reading6.3538income2007
16BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2007 reading5.9411income2007
17BhutanBTNSouthern Asia · 2007 reading5.2754consumption2007
18EcuadorECUSouth America · 2007 reading5.2119income2007
19BrazilBRASouth America · 2007 reading5.0997income2007
20PanamaPANCentral America · 2007 reading5.0095income2007
21ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2007 reading4.9558income2007
22El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2007 reading4.6702income2007
23RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2007 reading4.3657income2007
24ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2007 reading4.3062consumption2007
25Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2007 reading4.2282income2007

02In Prosperity Gap, 2007 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger18.4999
  2. 2Liberia14.2399
  3. 3Tanzania13.6690
  4. 4Timor-Leste11.3906
  5. 5Guinea10.2043

Lowest

  1. 73Luxembourg0.4431
  2. 72Switzerland0.5280
  3. 71Iceland0.5622
  4. 70Netherlands0.5719
  5. 69Germany0.5895

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.4479. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032006 → 2007

Since the 2006 compilation

What changed between the 2006 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +14 / −23countries joined / left
  • 59values changed, of 59 in both
  • 10 · 49rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Bhutan+ Cameroon+ Cabo Verde+ Guinea+ Laos+ Liberia+ Mongolia+ Niger+ Pakistan+ Tajikistan+ Timor-Leste+ Taiwan+ Tanzania− Burundi− Chile− Guatemala− Iran− Iraq− Jordan− Kiribati− South Korea− Sri Lanka− Morocco− Mexico− North Macedonia− Mali− Mauritius− Malaysia− Philippines− Seychelles− Syria− Togo− Venezuela− Vietnam− Kosovo− 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 2007, from 2007 to 2007.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 73 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

    73 rows · 3.7 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download prosperity-gap-2007-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 (2007). Prosperity Gap, 2007 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/prosperity-gap/2007

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07Questions

Prosperity Gap, 2007 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest prosperity gap in Prosperity Gap, 2007 compilation?

Niger, at 18.4999, of the 73 countries in the file.

How many countries does Prosperity Gap, 2007 compilation cover?

73.

Where can I download Prosperity Gap, 2007 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, 2007 compilation the newest?

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

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