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Prosperity Gap, 2022 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2022; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Prosperity Gap, 2022 compilation covers 73 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 24.428; Luxembourg is lowest, at 0.430. The middle country reads 2.118. Against the 2021 compilation, 56 values changed (26 up, 30 down), 17 countries joined, 26 left.

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Prosperity Gap · Latest available · compiled 2022

HighestMozambique

24.428

LowestLuxembourg

0.430

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, 2022 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 73 countries · select a heading to sort

Prosperity Gap, 2022 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa24.428consumption2022.08
2ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2022 reading22.853consumption2022
3KenyaKENEastern Africa9.850consumption2022.67
4NigeriaNGAWestern Africa9.756consumption2022.71
5ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2022 reading9.488consumption2022
6KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2022 reading7.461income2022
7SyriaSYRWestern Asia · 2022 reading6.846consumption2022
8South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa5.704consumption2022.85
9IndiaINDSouthern Asia5.364consumption2022.58
10KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2022 reading5.106consumption2022
11IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2022 reading5.097consumption2022
12BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia · 2022 reading4.962consumption2022
13ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2022 reading4.890income2022
14TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2022 reading4.834consumption2022
15GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2022 reading4.751consumption2022
16Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa4.734consumption2022.61
17LebanonLBNWestern Asia4.211consumption2022.8
18ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2022 reading4.034consumption2022
19NepalNPLSouthern Asia3.909consumption2022.5
20El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2022 reading3.833income2022
21PeruPERSouth America · 2022 reading3.696income2022
22UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2022 reading3.591income2022
23IranIRNSouthern Asia3.445consumption2022.23
24EcuadorECUSouth America · 2022 reading3.277income2022
25BrazilBRASouth America · 2022 reading3.208income2022

02In Prosperity Gap, 2022 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique24.428
  2. 2Zambia22.853
  3. 3Kenya9.850
  4. 4Nigeria9.756
  5. 5Chad9.488

Lowest

  1. 73Luxembourg0.430
  2. 72Switzerland0.483
  3. 71Belgium0.534
  4. 70Finland0.606
  5. 69Austria0.608

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.118. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since the 2021 compilation

What changed between the 2021 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +17 / −26countries joined / left
  • 56values changed, of 56 in both
  • 26 · 30rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bangladesh+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Equatorial Guinea+ India+ Lebanon+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Nigeria+ Nepal+ Suriname+ Syria+ Chad+ Vietnam+ South Africa+ Zambia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Central African Republic− Côte d’Ivoire− Cameroon− Egypt− Ethiopia− United Kingdom− Guinea-Bissau− Jamaica− Kazakhstan− South Korea− Madagascar− Mali− Montenegro− Malaysia− Niger− Netherlands− Panama− Philippines− Senegal− Togo− Tonga− Tunisia− Taiwan

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 2022, from 2022 to 2022.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 73 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

    73 rows · 3.7 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download prosperity-gap-2022-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 (2022). Prosperity Gap, 2022 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/prosperity-gap/2022

0622 held

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07Questions

Prosperity Gap, 2022 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest prosperity gap in Prosperity Gap, 2022 compilation?

Mozambique, at 24.428, of the 73 countries in the file.

How many countries does Prosperity Gap, 2022 compilation cover?

73.

Where can I download Prosperity Gap, 2022 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, 2022 compilation the newest?

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

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