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Prosperity Gap, 2021 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2021; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Prosperity Gap, 2021 compilation covers 82 countries. Central African Republic is highest, at 18.225; Luxembourg is lowest, at 0.446. The middle country reads 2.272. Against the 2020 compilation, 59 values changed (16 up, 43 down), 23 countries joined, 12 left.

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Prosperity Gap · Latest available · compiled 2021

HighestCentral African Republic

18.225

LowestLuxembourg

0.446

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, 2021 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 82 countries · select a heading to sort

Prosperity Gap, 2021 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2021 reading18.225consumption2021
2MadagascarMDGEastern Africa14.427consumption2021.75
3KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2021 reading11.898income2021
4NigerNERWestern Africa11.336consumption2021.5
5KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2021 reading10.031consumption2021
6Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa9.415consumption2021.67
7EthiopiaETHEastern Africa · 2021 reading9.123consumption2021
8Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa9.098consumption2021.75
9TogoTGOWestern Africa8.617consumption2021.63
10MaliMLIWestern Africa8.503consumption2021.57
11BeninBENWestern Africa7.677consumption2021.75
12CameroonCMRMiddle Africa7.308consumption2021.67
13Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa6.704consumption2021.75
14SenegalSENWestern Africa6.375consumption2021.71
15ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2021 reading5.297income2021
16GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2021 reading5.284consumption2021
17KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2021 reading5.252consumption2021
18IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading5.101consumption2021
19TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2021 reading5.091consumption2021
20PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading4.797income2021
21ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2021 reading3.987consumption2021
22EgyptEGYNorthern Africa3.946consumption2021.77
23El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2021 reading3.828income2021
24BrazilBRASouth America · 2021 reading3.795income2021
25UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2021 reading3.775income2021

02In Prosperity Gap, 2021 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Central African Republic18.225
  2. 2Madagascar14.427
  3. 3Kosovo11.898
  4. 4Niger11.336
  5. 5Kenya10.031

Lowest

  1. 82Luxembourg0.446
  2. 81Switzerland0.466
  3. 80Netherlands0.508
  4. 79Belgium0.535
  5. 78Finland0.546

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.272. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since the 2020 compilation

What changed between the 2020 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −12countries joined / left
  • 59values changed, of 59 in both
  • 16 · 43rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Central African Republic+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jamaica+ Madagascar+ Mali+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Panama+ Philippines+ Senegal+ El Salvador+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uzbekistan− Albania− Australia− Burundi− Belarus− Chile− DR Congo− Comoros− Gambia− Japan− Mexico− Ukraine− 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 2021, from 2021 to 2021.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 82 countries has every column.

05The files

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The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

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    82 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-2021-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 (2021). Prosperity Gap, 2021 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/prosperity-gap/2021

0622 held

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07Questions

Prosperity Gap, 2021 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest prosperity gap in Prosperity Gap, 2021 compilation?

Central African Republic, at 18.225, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Prosperity Gap, 2021 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Prosperity Gap, 2021 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, 2021 compilation the newest?

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

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