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Prosperity Gap, 2013 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2013; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Prosperity Gap, 2013 compilation covers 78 countries. Burundi is highest, at 17.077; Switzerland is lowest, at 0.472. The middle country reads 2.144. Against the 2012 compilation, 66 values changed (22 up, 44 down), 12 countries joined, 21 left.

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Prosperity Gap · Latest available · compiled 2013

HighestBurundi

17.077

LowestSwitzerland

0.472

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, 2013 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 78 countries · select a heading to sort

Prosperity Gap, 2013 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BurundiBDIEastern Africa17.077consumption2013.5
2RwandaRWAEastern Africa14.059consumption2013.75
3DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2013 reading9.645consumption2013
4MicronesiaFSMMicronesia · 2013 reading8.657consumption2013
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2013 reading7.203consumption2013
6PakistanPAKSouthern Asia7.058consumption2013.5
7HondurasHNDCentral America · 2013 reading6.968income2013
8KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2013 reading6.243consumption2013
9GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2013 reading5.869consumption2013
10SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2013 reading5.515income2013
11ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2013 reading5.340income2013
12RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2013 reading4.611income2013
13El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2013 reading4.284income2013
14ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2013 reading4.196consumption2013
15ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2013 reading4.167consumption2013
16North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2013 reading4.136income2013
17PeruPERSouth America · 2013 reading4.134income2013
18KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2013 reading4.067consumption2013
19SamoaWSMPolynesia3.878consumption2013.25
20MoroccoMARNorthern Africa3.860consumption2013.5
21BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2013 reading3.600income2013
22FijiFJIMelanesia3.582consumption2013.24
23Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2013 reading3.531income2013
24EcuadorECUSouth America · 2013 reading3.403income2013
25IranIRNSouthern Asia3.380consumption2013.23

02In Prosperity Gap, 2013 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Burundi17.077
  2. 2Rwanda14.059
  3. 3Djibouti9.645
  4. 4Micronesia8.657
  5. 5Indonesia7.203

Lowest

  1. 78Switzerland0.472
  2. 77Norway0.495
  3. 76Luxembourg0.522
  4. 75United Arab Emirates0.575
  5. 74Germany0.586

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.144. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032012 → 2013

Since the 2012 compilation

What changed between the 2012 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −21countries joined / left
  • 66values changed, of 66 in both
  • 22 · 44rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ United Arab Emirates+ Burundi+ Chile+ Fiji+ Micronesia+ Morocco+ Malaysia+ Pakistan+ Rwanda+ Seychelles+ Taiwan+ Samoa− Albania− Bhutan− DR Congo− Egypt− Ghana− Guinea− Haiti− Iraq− South Korea− Laos− Sri Lanka− Madagascar− Mexico− Mongolia− Mauritius− Nigeria− Nauru− Philippines− Solomon Islands− Uganda− Vietnam

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 2013, from 2013 to 2013.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 78 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

    78 rows · 3.8 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download prosperity-gap-2013-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 (2013). Prosperity Gap, 2013 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/prosperity-gap/2013

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07Questions

Prosperity Gap, 2013 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest prosperity gap in Prosperity Gap, 2013 compilation?

Burundi, at 17.077, of the 78 countries in the file.

How many countries does Prosperity Gap, 2013 compilation cover?

78.

Where can I download Prosperity Gap, 2013 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, 2013 compilation the newest?

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

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