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Societal Poverty Rate, 2006 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2006; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Societal Poverty Rate, 2006 compilation covers 82 countries on 2 measures. Burundi is highest, at 81.50; Denmark is lowest, at 6.24. The middle country reads 22.14. Against the 2005 compilation, 59 values changed (14 up, 45 down), 23 countries joined, 22 left.

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Societal Poverty Rate · Latest available · compiled 2006

HighestBurundi

81.50

LowestDenmark

6.24

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Societal Poverty Rate, 2006 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

Societal Poverty Rate, 2006 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BurundiBDIEastern Africa · 2006 reading81.503.00consumption2006
2ZambiaZMBEastern Africa71.963.00consumption2006.5
3TogoTGOWestern Africa · 2006 reading67.653.00consumption2006
4MaliMLIWestern Africa63.983.00consumption2006.25
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2006 reading46.833.00consumption2006
6HondurasHNDCentral America · 2006 reading38.284.39income2006
7PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2006 reading37.173.74income2006
8PeruPERSouth America · 2006 reading35.644.57income2006
9KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2006 reading35.603.49consumption2006
10VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2006 reading33.823.60consumption2006
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2006 reading33.483.77consumption2006
12BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2006 reading33.085.98income2006
13PanamaPANCentral America · 2006 reading32.996.02income2006
14KiribatiKIRMicronesia · 2006 reading32.793.76consumption2006
15BrazilBRASouth America · 2006 reading31.826.12income2006
16ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2006 reading31.485.41income2006
17GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2006 reading31.216.59income2006
18EcuadorECUSouth America · 2006 reading30.715.74income2006
19El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2006 reading29.734.99income2006
20Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2006 reading29.166.13income2006
21RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2006 reading28.995.76income2006
22MexicoMEXCentral America · 2006 reading28.945.80income2006
23VenezuelaVENSouth America · 2006 reading28.595.99income2006
24Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia28.564.10consumption2006.5
25MoroccoMARNorthern Africa27.874.56consumption2006.91

02In Societal Poverty Rate, 2006 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Burundi81.50
  2. 2Zambia71.96
  3. 3Togo67.65
  4. 4Mali63.98
  5. 5Indonesia46.83

Lowest

  1. 82Denmark6.24
  2. 81Iceland7.71
  3. 80Slovenia7.78
  4. 79Finland7.93
  5. 78Cyprus8.44

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

032005 → 2006

Since the 2005 compilation

What changed between the 2005 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

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

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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.

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 2006, from 2006 to 2006.

  • 81 distinct values among 82

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 15.58. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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

Download and cite

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

Licence in full

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 (2006). Societal Poverty Rate, 2006 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/societal-poverty-rate/2006

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07Questions

Societal Poverty Rate, 2006 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest societal poverty rate in Societal Poverty Rate, 2006 compilation?

Burundi, at 81.50, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Societal Poverty Rate, 2006 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Societal Poverty Rate, 2006 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Societal Poverty Rate, 2006 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Societal Poverty Rate, 2023 compilation.

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