Societal Poverty Rate, 2008 compilation

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Societal Poverty Rate, 2008 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	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	81.13	3.00	consumption	2008.67
2	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2008 reading	67.26	3.00	consumption	2008
3	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa · 2008 reading	46.98	3.00	consumption	2008
4	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	41.99	3.40	consumption	2008.67
5	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2008 reading	39.24	3.05	consumption	2008
6	ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2008 reading	36.98	3.83	consumption	2008
7	HondurasHNDCentral America · 2008 reading	35.61	4.89	income	2008
8	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	35.34	3.97	consumption	2008.5
9	MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	34.01	4.00	consumption	2008.2
10	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2008 reading	33.89	3.88	consumption	2008
11	ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2008 reading	33.53	5.15	income	2008
12	PeruPERSouth America · 2008 reading	32.69	5.37	income	2008
13	VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2008 reading	31.82	3.77	consumption	2008
14	MexicoMEXCentral America · 2008 reading	30.57	5.85	income	2008
15	El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2008 reading	30.36	4.95	income	2008
16	BrazilBRASouth America · 2008 reading	30.33	6.82	income	2008
17	KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2008 reading	30.00	3.93	consumption	2008
18	EcuadorECUSouth America · 2008 reading	29.99	6.03	income	2008
19	BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2008 reading	29.95	6.99	income	2008
20	PanamaPANCentral America · 2008 reading	29.87	7.54	income	2008
21	ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2008 reading	29.19	6.02	income	2008
22	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2008 reading	28.59	5.91	income	2008
=23	ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2008 reading	26.24	11.34	income	2008
=23	SamoaWSMPolynesia · 2008 reading	26.24	5.49	consumption	2008
25	MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	26.14	8.72	income	2008.25

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 17.66. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Societal poverty line (2021 PPP $ a day)

  HighestLuxembourg37.14

  Lowest3 share it

  Middle country: 9.36

• +21 / −15countries joined / left
• 56values changed, of 58 in both
• 23 · 33rose · fell
• 2unchanged

+ Angola+ Albania+ Australia+ Central African Republic+ China+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Colombia+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Croatia+ Jordan+ Japan+ South Korea+ Mexico+ North Macedonia+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malaysia+ Vietnam+ Samoa+ South Africa− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Bhutan− Cameroon− Cabo Verde− Guinea− Laos− Liberia− Mongolia− Niger− Pakistan− Palestine− Tajikistan− Timor-Leste− Taiwan− Tanzania

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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