Societal Poverty Rate, 2006 compilation

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Societal Poverty Rate, 2006 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	BurundiBDIEastern Africa · 2006 reading	81.50	3.00	consumption	2006
2	ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	71.96	3.00	consumption	2006.5
3	TogoTGOWestern Africa · 2006 reading	67.65	3.00	consumption	2006
4	MaliMLIWestern Africa	63.98	3.00	consumption	2006.25
5	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2006 reading	46.83	3.00	consumption	2006
6	HondurasHNDCentral America · 2006 reading	38.28	4.39	income	2006
7	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2006 reading	37.17	3.74	income	2006
8	PeruPERSouth America · 2006 reading	35.64	4.57	income	2006
9	KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2006 reading	35.60	3.49	consumption	2006
10	VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2006 reading	33.82	3.60	consumption	2006
11	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2006 reading	33.48	3.77	consumption	2006
12	BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2006 reading	33.08	5.98	income	2006
13	PanamaPANCentral America · 2006 reading	32.99	6.02	income	2006
14	KiribatiKIRMicronesia · 2006 reading	32.79	3.76	consumption	2006
15	BrazilBRASouth America · 2006 reading	31.82	6.12	income	2006
16	ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2006 reading	31.48	5.41	income	2006
17	GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2006 reading	31.21	6.59	income	2006
18	EcuadorECUSouth America · 2006 reading	30.71	5.74	income	2006
19	El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2006 reading	29.73	4.99	income	2006
20	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2006 reading	29.16	6.13	income	2006
21	RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2006 reading	28.99	5.76	income	2006
22	MexicoMEXCentral America · 2006 reading	28.94	5.80	income	2006
23	VenezuelaVENSouth America · 2006 reading	28.59	5.99	income	2006
24	Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia	28.56	4.10	consumption	2006.5
25	MoroccoMARNorthern Africa	27.87	4.56	consumption	2006.91

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 22.14. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Societal poverty line (2021 PPP $ a day)

  HighestLuxembourg37.85

  Lowest5 share it

  Middle country: 7.26

• +23 / −22countries joined / left
• 59values changed, of 59 in both
• 14 · 45rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Burundi+ Bulgaria+ Switzerland+ Chile+ Guatemala+ Iraq+ Jordan+ Kiribati+ South Korea+ Sri Lanka+ Morocco+ Mali+ Malta+ Mauritius+ Malaysia+ Philippines+ Seychelles+ Syria+ Togo+ Thailand+ Uruguay+ Vietnam+ Zambia− Albania− Azerbaijan− Bangladesh− China− Republic of the Congo− Colombia− Micronesia− Gabon− Ghana− Kenya− Madagascar− Niger− Nicaragua− Pakistan− Rwanda− Senegal− Solomon Islands− Tunisia− Taiwan− Uganda− Yemen− South Africa

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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