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Prosperity Gap, 2008 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2008; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Prosperity Gap, 2008 compilation covers 79 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 22.618; Luxembourg is lowest, at 0.458. The middle country reads 2.391. Against the 2007 compilation, 58 values changed (20 up, 38 down), 21 countries joined, 15 left.

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Prosperity Gap · Latest available · compiled 2008

HighestMozambique

22.618

LowestLuxembourg

0.458

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, 2008 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 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Prosperity Gap, 2008 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa22.618consumption2008.67
2Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2008 reading19.744consumption2008
3Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa · 2008 reading11.908consumption2008
4South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa9.178consumption2008.67
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2008 reading8.718consumption2008
6HondurasHNDCentral America · 2008 reading7.474income2008
7ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2008 reading7.225consumption2008
8GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2008 reading7.187consumption2008
9AngolaAGOMiddle Africa6.839consumption2008.5
10ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2008 reading6.577income2008
11MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa6.568consumption2008.2
12VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2008 reading6.521consumption2008
13KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2008 reading6.097consumption2008
14PeruPERSouth America · 2008 reading5.668income2008
15El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2008 reading5.183income2008
16BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2008 reading5.028income2008
17EcuadorECUSouth America · 2008 reading4.983income2008
18EgyptEGYNorthern Africa4.733consumption2008.24
19MexicoMEXCentral America · 2008 reading4.644income2008
20BrazilBRASouth America · 2008 reading4.535income2008
21ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2008 reading4.283income2008
22Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2008 reading4.132income2008
23ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2008 reading4.049consumption2008
24SamoaWSMPolynesia · 2008 reading3.885consumption2008
25RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2008 reading3.821income2008

02In Prosperity Gap, 2008 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique22.618
  2. 2Central African Republic19.744
  3. 3Côte d’Ivoire11.908
  4. 4South Africa9.178
  5. 5Indonesia8.718

Lowest

  1. 79Luxembourg0.458
  2. 78Switzerland0.526
  3. 77Iceland0.562
  4. 76Netherlands0.602
  5. 75Norway0.607

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.391. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since the 2007 compilation

What changed between the 2007 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +21 / −15countries joined / left
  • 58values changed, of 58 in both
  • 20 · 38rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Albania+ Australia+ Central African Republic+ China+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Colombia+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Croatia+ Jordan+ Japan+ South Korea+ Mexico+ North Macedonia+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malaysia+ Vietnam+ Samoa+ South Africa− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Bhutan− Cameroon− Cabo Verde− Guinea− Laos− Liberia− Mongolia− Niger− Pakistan− Palestine− Tajikistan− Timor-Leste− Taiwan− Tanzania

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 2008, from 2008 to 2008.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 79 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

    79 rows · 3.9 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download prosperity-gap-2008-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 (2008). Prosperity Gap, 2008 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/prosperity-gap/2008

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07Questions

Prosperity Gap, 2008 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest prosperity gap in Prosperity Gap, 2008 compilation?

Mozambique, at 22.618, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Prosperity Gap, 2008 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Prosperity Gap, 2008 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, 2008 compilation the newest?

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

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