Societal Poverty Rate, 2009 compilation

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Societal Poverty Rate, 2009 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	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2009 reading	67.17	3.000	consumption	2009
2	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	63.55	3.000	consumption	2009.4
3	MaliMLIWestern Africa	63.34	3.000	consumption	2009.89
4	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	58.22	3.000	consumption	2009.25
5	Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia	52.21	3.000	consumption	2009.67
6	South SudanSSDEastern Africa · 2009 reading	44.93	3.011	consumption	2009
7	NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa	42.05	3.227	consumption	2009.54
8	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2009 reading	38.85	3.040	consumption	2009
9	IndiaINDSouthern Asia	36.51	3.056	consumption	2009.5
10	BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	35.61	4.352	consumption	2009.25
11	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2009 reading	35.10	3.898	income	2009
12	HondurasHNDCentral America · 2009 reading	34.24	5.162	income	2009
13	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2009 reading	33.47	3.846	consumption	2009
14	ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2009 reading	33.04	5.222	income	2009
15	PeruPERSouth America · 2009 reading	31.50	5.516	income	2009
16	NicaraguaNICCentral America · 2009 reading	30.97	4.595	income	2009
17	TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2009 reading	30.66	3.815	consumption	2009
18	El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2009 reading	30.47	4.995	income	2009
19	MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia	30.38	4.524	consumption	2009.5
20	BrazilBRASouth America · 2009 reading	30.17	7.069	income	2009
21	North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2009 reading	29.82	6.035	income	2009
22	ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2009 reading	29.66	6.183	income	2009
23	SudanSDNNorthern Africa · 2009 reading	29.39	4.347	consumption	2009
24	EcuadorECUSouth America · 2009 reading	29.11	5.950	income	2009
25	PanamaPANCentral America · 2009 reading	28.91	7.578	income	2009

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 20.58. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Societal poverty line (2021 PPP $ a day)

  HighestLuxembourg38.600

  Lowest5 share it

  Middle country: 7.588

• +21 / −17countries joined / left
• 62values changed, of 62 in both
• 35 · 27rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Burkina Faso+ Botswana+ Chile+ India+ Iran+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Mali+ Namibia+ Nicaragua+ Philippines+ Papua New Guinea+ Palestine+ Sudan+ South Sudan+ Eswatini+ Syria+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Uganda+ Kosovo− Angola− Albania− Australia− Central African Republic− China− Côte d’Ivoire− Egypt− Fiji− Jordan− South Korea− Mexico− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malaysia− Vietnam− Samoa− 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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