Societal Poverty Rate, 2014 compilation

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Societal Poverty Rate, 2014 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	74.39	3.000	consumption	2014.44
2	NigerNERWestern Africa · 2014 reading	60.30	3.000	consumption	2014
3	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2014 reading	58.74	3.000	consumption	2014
4	Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	44.03	3.000	consumption	2014.31
5	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	38.91	3.898	consumption	2014.83
6	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa · 2014 reading	38.15	3.780	consumption	2014
7	YemenYEMWestern Asia · 2014 reading	38.03	3.199	consumption	2014
8	ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2014 reading	37.86	3.484	consumption	2014
9	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa · 2014 reading	36.51	3.288	consumption	2014
10	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2014 reading	35.72	3.484	consumption	2014
11	HondurasHNDCentral America · 2014 reading	35.11	4.738	income	2014
12	ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2014 reading	31.46	6.313	income	2014
13	GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2014 reading	29.26	5.881	income	2014
14	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2014 reading	29.25	4.568	consumption	2014
15	NicaraguaNICCentral America · 2014 reading	29.24	5.750	income	2014
16	MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa · 2014 reading	28.23	4.343	consumption	2014
17	PeruPERSouth America · 2014 reading	27.98	6.548	income	2014
18	PanamaPANCentral America · 2014 reading	27.95	9.231	income	2014
19	BrazilBRASouth America · 2014 reading	27.65	8.623	income	2014
20	MexicoMEXCentral America · 2014 reading	27.41	5.717	income	2014
21	RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2014 reading	27.22	7.057	income	2014
22	SudanSDNNorthern Africa · 2014 reading	27.00	4.258	consumption	2014
23	SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2014 reading	26.84	7.233	income	2014
24	El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2014 reading	26.76	5.502	income	2014
25	ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2014 reading	26.62	5.747	consumption	2014

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

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

+ 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.

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