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Prosperity Gap, 2012 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2012; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Prosperity Gap, 2012 compilation covers 87 countries. DR Congo is highest, at 21.8682; Switzerland is lowest, at 0.4559. The middle country reads 2.7493. Against the 2011 compilation, 65 values changed (28 up, 37 down), 22 countries joined, 17 left.

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Prosperity Gap · Latest available · compiled 2012

HighestDR Congo

21.8682

LowestSwitzerland

0.4559

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, 2012 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 87 countries · select a heading to sort

Prosperity Gap, 2012 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1DR CongoCODMiddle Africa21.8682consumption2012.4
2MadagascarMDGEastern Africa15.8609consumption2012.73
3UgandaUGAEastern Africa12.1546consumption2012.45
4GhanaGHAWestern Africa10.6289consumption2012.8
5HaitiHTICaribbean · 2012 reading10.4338consumption2012
6DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2012 reading9.9280consumption2012
7Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia9.6574consumption2012.79
8NigeriaNGAWestern Africa8.9613consumption2012.5
9HondurasHNDCentral America · 2012 reading8.1177income2012
10IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2012 reading7.2375consumption2012
11GuineaGINWestern Africa · 2012 reading7.0669consumption2012
12LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia6.8457consumption2012.25
13GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2012 reading6.5708consumption2012
14PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2012 reading6.3998income2012
15KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2012 reading6.1126consumption2012
16ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2012 reading5.5822income2012
17ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2012 reading5.1434consumption2012
18SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2012 reading5.0599income2012
19NauruNRUMicronesia4.9786consumption2012.69
20Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia4.7521consumption2012.5
21North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2012 reading4.7328income2012
22El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2012 reading4.5954income2012
23RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2012 reading4.4471income2012
24KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2012 reading4.3020consumption2012
25PeruPERSouth America · 2012 reading4.2954income2012

02In Prosperity Gap, 2012 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1DR Congo21.8682
  2. 2Madagascar15.8609
  3. 3Uganda12.1546
  4. 4Ghana10.6289
  5. 5Haiti10.4338

Lowest

  1. 87Switzerland0.4559
  2. 86Luxembourg0.5135
  3. 85Norway0.5334
  4. 84Denmark0.5782
  5. 83Netherlands0.5948

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.7493. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032011 → 2012

Since the 2011 compilation

What changed between the 2011 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −17countries joined / left
  • 65values changed, of 65 in both
  • 28 · 37rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Bhutan+ DR Congo+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Ghana+ Guinea+ Haiti+ Iraq+ South Korea+ Laos+ Sri Lanka+ Madagascar+ Mexico+ Mauritius+ Nigeria+ Nauru+ Philippines+ Solomon Islands+ Serbia+ Uganda+ Vietnam− Benin− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Chile− Republic of the Congo− Algeria− India− Lebanon− Malaysia− Niger− Pakistan− Palestine− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Chad− Togo− Tanzania− Zimbabwe

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 2012, from 2012 to 2012.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 87 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

    87 rows · 4.2 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download prosperity-gap-2012-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 (2012). Prosperity Gap, 2012 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/prosperity-gap/2012

0622 held

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07Questions

Prosperity Gap, 2012 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest prosperity gap in Prosperity Gap, 2012 compilation?

DR Congo, at 21.8682, of the 87 countries in the file.

How many countries does Prosperity Gap, 2012 compilation cover?

87.

Where can I download Prosperity Gap, 2012 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, 2012 compilation the newest?

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

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