Societal Poverty Rate, 2005 compilation

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Societal Poverty Rate, 2005 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.

Positionderived	Country	Population below the societal poverty line (%)	Societal poverty line (2021 PPP $ a day)	Survey measures	Survey year
1	NigerNERWestern Africa · 2005 reading	83.85	3.000	consumption	2005
2	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	74.16	3.000	consumption	2005.75
3	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	72.40	3.000	consumption	2005.33
4	Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia	62.19	3.000	consumption	2005.5
5	GhanaGHAWestern Africa	60.89	3.000	consumption	2005.67
6	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa · 2005 reading	55.31	3.000	consumption	2005
7	Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa · 2005 reading	54.45	3.000	consumption	2005
8	SenegalSENWestern Africa	53.57	3.000	consumption	2005.8
9	KenyaKENEastern Africa	44.56	3.000	consumption	2005.38
10	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa · 2005 reading	42.99	3.168	consumption	2005
11	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2005 reading	41.09	3.000	consumption	2005
12	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	40.81	3.000	consumption	2005.5
13	HondurasHNDCentral America · 2005 reading	39.81	3.947	income	2005
14	ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2005 reading	39.10	3.379	consumption	2005
15	KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2005 reading	38.47	3.082	consumption	2005
16	PeruPERSouth America · 2005 reading	36.88	4.176	income	2005
17	BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia · 2005 reading	36.58	3.159	consumption	2005
18	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2005 reading	34.27	3.822	consumption	2005
19	BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2005 reading	33.75	5.514	income	2005
20	PanamaPANCentral America · 2005 reading	33.33	6.011	income	2005
21	NicaraguaNICCentral America · 2005 reading	33.05	4.353	income	2005
22	BrazilBRASouth America · 2005 reading	33.04	5.724	income	2005
23	ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2005 reading	32.86	4.685	income	2005
24	YemenYEMWestern Asia	32.85	3.544	consumption	2005.25
25	MicronesiaFSMMicronesia · 2005 reading	32.83	4.546	consumption	2005

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 25.11. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Societal poverty line (2021 PPP $ a day)

  HighestLuxembourg38.572

  Lowest11 share it

  Middle country: 6.011

• +22 / −16countries joined / left
• 58values changed, of 59 in both
• 24 · 34rose · fell
• 1unchanged

+ Albania+ Bangladesh+ China+ Republic of the Congo+ Micronesia+ Gabon+ Ghana+ Iran+ Kenya+ Madagascar+ Montenegro+ Niger+ Nicaragua+ Rwanda+ Senegal+ Solomon Islands+ Tunisia+ Taiwan+ Uganda+ Kosovo+ Yemen+ South Africa− Australia− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Switzerland− DR Congo− Comoros− Egypt− Ethiopia− Croatia− India− Jamaica− Mauritania− Malawi− Thailand− Tajikistan− Vietnam− 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.

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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.

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