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Prosperity Gap, 2018 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2018; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Prosperity Gap, 2018 compilation covers 94 countries. Niger is highest, at 11.6596; United Arab Emirates is lowest, at 0.4853. The middle country reads 2.3740. Against the 2017 compilation, 67 values changed (18 up, 49 down), 27 countries joined, 12 left.

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Prosperity Gap · Latest available · compiled 2018

HighestNiger

11.6596

LowestUnited Arab Emirates

0.4853

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, 2018 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 94 countries · select a heading to sort

Prosperity Gap, 2018 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa11.6596consumption2018.57
2AngolaAGOMiddle Africa10.9642consumption2018.17
3TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa10.6391consumption2017.92
4KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2018 reading10.2189income2018
5Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa10.1653consumption2018.5
6ChadTCDMiddle Africa9.4985consumption2018.5
7Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa · 2018 reading9.1336consumption2018
8TogoTGOWestern Africa8.9320consumption2018.43
9BeninBENWestern Africa8.7842consumption2018.5
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa8.6746consumption2018.75
11Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa8.5781consumption2018.43
12MaliMLIWestern Africa7.6211consumption2018.57
13Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa6.7606consumption2018.5
14HondurasHNDCentral America · 2018 reading6.6341income2018
15PakistanPAKSouthern Asia6.6210consumption2018.5
16SenegalSENWestern Africa6.3790consumption2018.5
17LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia5.9956consumption2018.42
18GuineaGINWestern Africa5.7161consumption2018.5
19IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2018 reading5.5891consumption2018
20KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2018 reading5.3989consumption2018
21GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2018 reading5.2536consumption2018
22ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2018 reading5.0058income2018
23PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2018 reading4.7384income2018
24ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2018 reading3.9375consumption2018
25BrazilBRASouth America · 2018 reading3.6823income2018

02In Prosperity Gap, 2018 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger11.6596
  2. 2Angola10.9642
  3. 3Tanzania10.6391
  4. 4Kosovo10.2189
  5. 5Burkina Faso10.1653

Lowest

  1. 94United Arab Emirates0.4853
  2. 93Switzerland0.4956
  3. 92Netherlands0.5741
  4. 91France0.5844
  5. 90Germany0.5896

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.3740. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since the 2017 compilation

What changed between the 2017 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +27 / −12countries joined / left
  • 67values changed, of 67 in both
  • 18 · 49rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ United Arab Emirates+ Australia+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Belize+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guinea+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Jamaica+ Laos+ Mexico+ Mali+ Mongolia+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Senegal+ Sierra Leone+ Seychelles+ Chad+ Togo+ Tanzania+ Vietnam− Bhutan− Chile− Djibouti− Egypt− Gabon− Hungary− Lesotho− Myanmar− Mauritius− Qatar− São Tomé and Príncipe− 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 2018, from 2018 to 2018.

  • 92 distinct values among 94

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 2 countries share 1.2172. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 94 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
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    For a spreadsheet or code

    94 rows · 4.4 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download prosperity-gap-2018-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 (2018). Prosperity Gap, 2018 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/prosperity-gap/2018

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07Questions

Prosperity Gap, 2018 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest prosperity gap in Prosperity Gap, 2018 compilation?

Niger, at 11.6596, of the 94 countries in the file.

How many countries does Prosperity Gap, 2018 compilation cover?

94.

Where can I download Prosperity Gap, 2018 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, 2018 compilation the newest?

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

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