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Societal Poverty Rate, 2017 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2017; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Societal Poverty Rate, 2017 compilation covers 79 countries on 2 measures. Zimbabwe is highest, at 44.66; Czechia is lowest, at 5.97. The middle country reads 18.39. Against the 2016 compilation, 68 values changed (21 up, 47 down), 11 countries joined, 16 left.

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Societal Poverty Rate · Latest available · compiled 2017

HighestZimbabwe

44.66

LowestCzechia

5.97

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, 2017 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 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Societal Poverty Rate, 2017 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2017 reading44.663.000consumption2017
2LesothoLSOSouthern Africa43.283.090consumption2017.14
3DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2017 reading36.033.652consumption2017
4HondurasHNDCentral America · 2017 reading34.094.916income2017
5São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa · 2017 reading31.234.283consumption2017
6IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2017 reading30.743.988consumption2017
7KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2017 reading30.365.498income2017
8ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2017 reading30.356.406income2017
9BrazilBRASouth America · 2017 reading29.108.252income2017
10GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2017 reading28.914.715consumption2017
11PeruPERSouth America · 2017 reading27.756.660income2017
12PanamaPANCentral America · 2017 reading27.5010.532income2017
13BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2017 reading26.709.248income2017
14MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia · 2017 reading26.134.020consumption2017
15EcuadorECUSouth America · 2017 reading26.057.903income2017
16El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2017 reading25.265.989income2017
17BhutanBTNSouthern Asia · 2017 reading24.996.034consumption2017
18GabonGABMiddle Africa · 2017 reading24.696.954consumption2017
19ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2017 reading24.416.665consumption2017
=20North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2017 reading24.338.218income2017
=20ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2017 reading24.337.843income2017
22KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2017 reading24.163.897consumption2017
23RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2017 reading24.139.988income2017
24SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2017 reading24.057.859income2017
25Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2017 reading23.5610.378income2017

02In Societal Poverty Rate, 2017 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Zimbabwe44.66
  2. 2Lesotho43.28
  3. 3Djibouti36.03
  4. 4Honduras34.09
  5. 5São Tomé and Príncipe31.23

Lowest

  1. 79Czechia5.97
  2. 78Iceland7.07
  3. 77Slovenia7.81
  4. 76Denmark7.88
  5. 75Finland8.07

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 18.39. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Societal poverty line (2021 PPP $ a day)

    HighestNorway39.125

    LowestZimbabwe3.000

    Middle country: 11.055

032016 → 2017

Since the 2016 compilation

What changed between the 2016 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +11 / −16countries joined / left
  • 68values changed, of 68 in both
  • 21 · 47rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Gabon+ Lesotho+ Myanmar+ Mauritius+ Qatar+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Zimbabwe− Australia− Bangladesh− Barbados− Ghana− Liberia− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Mexico− Mongolia− Malawi− Palestine− Rwanda− South Sudan− Eswatini− Uganda− Vietnam

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 2017, from 2017 to 2017.

  • 78 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 24.33. 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 79 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 (2017). Societal Poverty Rate, 2017 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/societal-poverty-rate/2017

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07Questions

Societal Poverty Rate, 2017 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest societal poverty rate in Societal Poverty Rate, 2017 compilation?

Zimbabwe, at 44.66, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Societal Poverty Rate, 2017 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Societal Poverty Rate, 2017 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, 2017 compilation the newest?

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

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