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Prosperity Gap, 2019 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2019; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Prosperity Gap, 2019 compilation covers 79 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 25.2438; Switzerland is lowest, at 0.4767. The middle country reads 2.1588. Against the 2018 compilation, 67 values changed (18 up, 49 down), 12 countries joined, 27 left.

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Prosperity Gap · Latest available · compiled 2019

HighestMozambique

25.2438

LowestSwitzerland

0.4767

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, 2019 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, 2019 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa25.2438consumption2019.92
2MalawiMWIEastern Africa16.7273consumption2019.31
3UgandaUGAEastern Africa13.1355consumption2019.64
4ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2019 reading11.2013consumption2019
5VanuatuVUTMelanesia6.6208consumption2019.21
6HondurasHNDCentral America · 2019 reading6.3862income2019
7KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2019 reading6.2359income2019
8MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa5.4979consumption2019.6
9IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2019 reading5.4088consumption2019
10KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2019 reading5.2873consumption2019
11ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2019 reading5.2268income2019
12KiribatiKIRMicronesia5.1418consumption2019.27
13GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2019 reading5.0752consumption2019
14FijiFJIMelanesia4.4187consumption2019.15
15EgyptEGYNorthern Africa4.2061consumption2019.43
16ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2019 reading4.0580consumption2019
17Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia · 2019 reading3.9703consumption2019
18IranIRNSouthern Asia3.9034consumption2019.23
19BrazilBRASouth America · 2019 reading3.7043income2019
20PeruPERSouth America · 2019 reading3.4927income2019
21EcuadorECUSouth America · 2019 reading3.3118income2019
22Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia3.2753consumption2019.5
23El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2019 reading3.2504income2019
24SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2019 reading3.0607income2019
25North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2019 reading2.9396income2019

02In Prosperity Gap, 2019 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique25.2438
  2. 2Malawi16.7273
  3. 3Uganda13.1355
  4. 4Zimbabwe11.2013
  5. 5Vanuatu6.6208

Lowest

  1. 79Switzerland0.4767
  2. 78Luxembourg0.5430
  3. 77Netherlands0.5518
  4. 76Norway0.5598
  5. 75Finland0.5834

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.1588. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since the 2018 compilation

What changed between the 2018 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

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

Rose most

Fell most

+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Kiribati+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ Uganda+ Vanuatu+ Zimbabwe− 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

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 2019, from 2019 to 2019.

  • 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
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    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-2019-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 (2019). Prosperity Gap, 2019 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/prosperity-gap/2019

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07Questions

Prosperity Gap, 2019 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest prosperity gap in Prosperity Gap, 2019 compilation?

Mozambique, at 25.2438, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Prosperity Gap, 2019 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Prosperity Gap, 2019 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, 2019 compilation the newest?

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

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