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Prosperity Gap, 2023 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2023; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Prosperity Gap, 2023 compilation covers 60 countries. Uganda is highest, at 12.065; Luxembourg is lowest, at 0.406. The middle country reads 1.754. Against the 2022 compilation, 51 values changed (15 up, 36 down), 9 countries joined, 22 left.

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Prosperity Gap · Latest available · compiled 2023

HighestUganda

12.065

LowestLuxembourg

0.406

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, 2023 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 60 countries · select a heading to sort

Prosperity Gap, 2023 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UgandaUGAEastern Africa12.065consumption2023.17
2RwandaRWAEastern Africa8.773consumption2023.77
3HondurasHNDCentral America · 2023 reading6.628income2023
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading4.968consumption2023
5IndiaINDSouthern Asia4.947consumption2023.58
6ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2023 reading4.847income2023
7GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2023 reading4.794income2023
8KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2023 reading4.724consumption2023
9TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2023 reading4.536consumption2023
10PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading4.415income2023
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2023 reading4.144consumption2023
12ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2023 reading3.989consumption2023
13PeruPERSouth America · 2023 reading3.812income2023
14KiribatiKIRMicronesia3.752consumption2023.42
15El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2023 reading3.553income2023
16IranIRNSouthern Asia3.320consumption2023.23
17EcuadorECUSouth America · 2023 reading3.256income2023
18UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2023 reading3.199income2023
19BrazilBRASouth America · 2023 reading2.989income2023
20PalestinePSEWestern Asia · 2023 reading2.908consumption2023
21IraqIRQWestern Asia · 2023 reading2.847consumption2023
22ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2023 reading2.669income2023
23MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2023 reading2.575consumption2023
24PanamaPANCentral America · 2023 reading2.573income2023
25Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2023 reading2.371income2023

02In Prosperity Gap, 2023 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uganda12.065
  2. 2Rwanda8.773
  3. 3Honduras6.628
  4. 4Indonesia4.968
  5. 5India4.947

Lowest

  1. 60Luxembourg0.406
  2. 59Switzerland0.484
  3. 58Belgium0.531
  4. 57Norway0.552
  5. 56Cyprus0.608

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.754. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since the 2022 compilation

What changed between the 2022 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −22countries joined / left
  • 51values changed, of 51 in both
  • 15 · 36rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ Iraq+ Kiribati+ Panama+ Philippines+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ Uganda− Bangladesh− Bhutan− Canada− Chile− China− Germany− Equatorial Guinea− Israel− Kenya− Lebanon− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Nigeria− Nepal− Suriname− Syria− Chad− Vietnam− Kosovo− South Africa− Zambia

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 2023, from 2023 to 2023.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 60 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.

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    For a spreadsheet or code

    60 rows · 3.2 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel

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

    Download prosperity-gap-2023-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 (2023). Prosperity Gap, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/prosperity-gap/2023

0622 held

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07Questions

Prosperity Gap, 2023 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest prosperity gap in Prosperity Gap, 2023 compilation?

Uganda, at 12.065, of the 60 countries in the file.

How many countries does Prosperity Gap, 2023 compilation cover?

60.

Where can I download Prosperity Gap, 2023 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, 2023 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-26, when it was read from the publisher.

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