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Prosperity Gap, 2020 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2020; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Prosperity Gap, 2020 compilation covers 71 countries. DR Congo is highest, at 26.068; Luxembourg is lowest, at 0.408. The middle country reads 1.530. Against the 2019 compilation, 62 values changed (31 up, 31 down), 9 countries joined, 17 left.

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Prosperity Gap · Latest available · compiled 2020

HighestDR Congo

26.068

LowestLuxembourg

0.408

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, 2020 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 71 countries · select a heading to sort

Prosperity Gap, 2020 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1DR CongoCODMiddle Africa · 2020 reading26.068consumption2020
2BurundiBDIEastern Africa16.376consumption2020.15
3KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2020 reading9.941income2020
4KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2020 reading9.848consumption2020
5ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2020 reading7.487income2020
6GambiaGMBWestern Africa6.908consumption2020.08
7KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2020 reading5.731consumption2020
8GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2020 reading5.493consumption2020
9ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2020 reading5.303consumption2020
10IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2020 reading5.261consumption2020
11PeruPERSouth America · 2020 reading4.813income2020
12EcuadorECUSouth America · 2020 reading4.002income2020
13ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2020 reading3.972consumption2020
14IranIRNSouthern Asia3.961consumption2020.23
15MexicoMEXCentral America · 2020 reading3.474income2020
16Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2020 reading3.009income2020
17ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2020 reading2.864income2020
18MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2020 reading2.752income2020
19ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2020 reading2.725consumption2020
20Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2020 reading2.702income2020
21BrazilBRASouth America · 2020 reading2.671income2020
22BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2020 reading2.662income2020
23SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2020 reading2.533income2020
24VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2020 reading2.517consumption2020
25AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe · 2020 reading2.513consumption2020

02In Prosperity Gap, 2020 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1DR Congo26.068
  2. 2Burundi16.376
  3. 3Kosovo9.941
  4. 4Kenya9.848
  5. 5Colombia7.487

Lowest

  1. 71Luxembourg0.408
  2. 70Switzerland0.477
  3. 69Netherlands0.500
  4. 68Canada0.507
  5. 67Belgium0.545

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.530. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since the 2019 compilation

What changed between the 2019 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −17countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 62 in both
  • 31 · 31rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Burundi+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Mexico+ Vietnam− Egypt− Fiji− Honduras− Iceland− Kiribati− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Marshall Islands− North Macedonia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malawi− Panama− El Salvador− Uganda− Vanuatu− 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 2020, from 2020 to 2020.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 71 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

    71 rows · 3.6 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download prosperity-gap-2020-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 (2020). Prosperity Gap, 2020 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/prosperity-gap/2020

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07Questions

Prosperity Gap, 2020 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest prosperity gap in Prosperity Gap, 2020 compilation?

DR Congo, at 26.068, of the 71 countries in the file.

How many countries does Prosperity Gap, 2020 compilation cover?

71.

Where can I download Prosperity Gap, 2020 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, 2020 compilation the newest?

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

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