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Societal Poverty Rate, 2014 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2014; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Societal Poverty Rate, 2014 compilation covers 84 countries on 2 measures. Mozambique is highest, at 74.39; Denmark is lowest, at 7.59. The middle country reads 19.98. Against the 2013 compilation, 64 values changed (22 up, 42 down), 19 countries joined, 13 left.

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Societal Poverty Rate · Latest available · compiled 2014

HighestMozambique

74.39

LowestDenmark

7.59

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, 2014 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 84 countries · select a heading to sort

Societal Poverty Rate, 2014 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa74.393.000consumption2014.44
2NigerNERWestern Africa · 2014 reading60.303.000consumption2014
3Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2014 reading58.743.000consumption2014
4Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia44.033.000consumption2014.31
5South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa38.913.898consumption2014.83
6CameroonCMRMiddle Africa · 2014 reading38.153.780consumption2014
7YemenYEMWestern Asia · 2014 reading38.033.199consumption2014
8ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2014 reading37.863.484consumption2014
9LiberiaLBRWestern Africa · 2014 reading36.513.288consumption2014
10IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2014 reading35.723.484consumption2014
11HondurasHNDCentral America · 2014 reading35.114.738income2014
12ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2014 reading31.466.313income2014
13GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2014 reading29.265.881income2014
14GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2014 reading29.254.568consumption2014
15NicaraguaNICCentral America · 2014 reading29.245.750income2014
16MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa · 2014 reading28.234.343consumption2014
17PeruPERSouth America · 2014 reading27.986.548income2014
18PanamaPANCentral America · 2014 reading27.959.231income2014
19BrazilBRASouth America · 2014 reading27.658.623income2014
20MexicoMEXCentral America · 2014 reading27.415.717income2014
21RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2014 reading27.227.057income2014
22SudanSDNNorthern Africa · 2014 reading27.004.258consumption2014
23SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2014 reading26.847.233income2014
24El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2014 reading26.765.502income2014
25ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2014 reading26.625.747consumption2014

02In Societal Poverty Rate, 2014 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique74.39
  2. 2Niger60.30
  3. 3Burkina Faso58.74
  4. 4Timor-Leste44.03
  5. 5South Africa38.91

Lowest

  1. 84Denmark7.59
  2. 83Czechia7.60
  3. 82Iceland7.61
  4. 81Finland7.99
  5. 80Norway8.45

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 19.98. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Societal poverty line (2021 PPP $ a day)

    HighestNorway39.455

    Lowest4 share it

    Middle country: 9.272

032013 → 2014

Since the 2013 compilation

What changed between the 2013 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +19 / −13countries joined / left
  • 64values changed, of 65 in both
  • 22 · 42rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Australia+ Burkina Faso+ Cameroon+ Comoros+ Guatemala+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Niger+ Nicaragua+ Sudan+ Timor-Leste+ Vietnam+ Yemen+ South Africa− United Arab Emirates− Burundi− Chile− Djibouti− Fiji− Micronesia− Morocco− Malaysia− Pakistan− Rwanda− Seychelles− Taiwan− Samoa

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 2014, from 2014 to 2014.

  • 83 distinct values among 84

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 11.75. 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 84 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 (2014). Societal Poverty Rate, 2014 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/societal-poverty-rate/2014

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07Questions

Societal Poverty Rate, 2014 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest societal poverty rate in Societal Poverty Rate, 2014 compilation?

Mozambique, at 74.39, of the 84 countries in the file.

How many countries does Societal Poverty Rate, 2014 compilation cover?

84.

Where can I download Societal Poverty Rate, 2014 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, 2014 compilation the newest?

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

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