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Prosperity Gap, 2014 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2014; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Prosperity Gap, 2014 compilation covers 84 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 20.392; Switzerland is lowest, at 0.466. The middle country reads 2.428. Against the 2013 compilation, 65 values changed (18 up, 47 down), 19 countries joined, 13 left.

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Prosperity Gap · Latest available · compiled 2014

HighestMozambique

20.392

LowestSwitzerland

0.466

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, 2014 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 84 countries · select a heading to sort

Prosperity Gap, 2014 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa20.392consumption2014.44
2NigerNERWestern Africa · 2014 reading12.545consumption2014
3Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2014 reading11.162consumption2014
4Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia9.430consumption2014.31
5ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2014 reading9.047consumption2014
6YemenYEMWestern Asia · 2014 reading8.446consumption2014
7LiberiaLBRWestern Africa · 2014 reading8.281consumption2014
8CameroonCMRMiddle Africa · 2014 reading7.826consumption2014
9South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa7.565consumption2014.83
10IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2014 reading7.033consumption2014
11HondurasHNDCentral America · 2014 reading6.476income2014
12SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2014 reading6.331income2014
13KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2014 reading5.760consumption2014
14MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa · 2014 reading5.547consumption2014
15GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2014 reading5.461consumption2014
16SudanSDNNorthern Africa · 2014 reading5.452consumption2014
17ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2014 reading5.104income2014
18RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2014 reading4.517income2014
19GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2014 reading4.336income2014
20El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2014 reading4.230income2014
21MexicoMEXCentral America · 2014 reading4.226income2014
22KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2014 reading4.209consumption2014
23NicaraguaNICCentral America · 2014 reading4.174income2014
24ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2014 reading4.133consumption2014
25North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2014 reading4.049income2014

02In Prosperity Gap, 2014 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique20.392
  2. 2Niger12.545
  3. 3Burkina Faso11.162
  4. 4Timor-Leste9.430
  5. 5Comoros9.047

Lowest

  1. 84Switzerland0.466
  2. 83Norway0.494
  3. 82Luxembourg0.560
  4. 81France0.597
  5. 80Germany0.604

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.428. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032013 → 2014

Since the 2013 compilation

What changed between the 2013 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +19 / −13countries joined / left
  • 65values changed, of 65 in both
  • 18 · 47rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Australia+ Burkina Faso+ Cameroon+ Comoros+ Guatemala+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Niger+ Nicaragua+ Sudan+ Timor-Leste+ Vietnam+ Yemen+ South Africa− United Arab Emirates− Burundi− Chile− Djibouti− Fiji− Micronesia− Morocco− Malaysia− Pakistan− Rwanda− Seychelles− Taiwan− Samoa

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 2014, from 2014 to 2014.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 84 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

    84 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-2014-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 (2014). Prosperity Gap, 2014 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/prosperity-gap/2014

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07Questions

Prosperity Gap, 2014 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest prosperity gap in Prosperity Gap, 2014 compilation?

Mozambique, at 20.392, of the 84 countries in the file.

How many countries does Prosperity Gap, 2014 compilation cover?

84.

Where can I download Prosperity Gap, 2014 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, 2014 compilation the newest?

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

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