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Societal Poverty Rate, 2019 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2019; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

The societal poverty rate is the share of people who are poor by the standards of their own country. Its line is the higher of $3.00 a day and $1.30 plus half the country’s median income or consumption, so it rises as a country gets richer — the World Bank’s measure of poverty that counts relative as well as absolute need.

Societal Poverty Rate, 2019 compilation covers 79 countries on 2 measures. Mozambique is highest, at 81.63; Czechia is lowest, at 5.92. The middle country reads 17.50. Against the 2018 compilation, 66 values changed (29 up, 37 down), 12 countries joined, 27 left.

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Societal Poverty Rate · Latest available · compiled 2019

HighestMozambique

81.63

LowestCzechia

5.92

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, 2019 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, 2019 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa81.633.00consumption2019.92
2MalawiMWIEastern Africa75.443.00consumption2019.31
3UgandaUGAEastern Africa59.783.00consumption2019.64
4ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2019 reading49.223.00consumption2019
5HondurasHNDCentral America · 2019 reading35.305.05income2019
6VanuatuVUTMelanesia32.673.88consumption2019.21
7ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2019 reading31.446.36income2019
8BrazilBRASouth America · 2019 reading29.228.63income2019
9IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2019 reading28.384.21consumption2019
10MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa27.574.33consumption2019.6
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2019 reading27.434.73consumption2019
12EcuadorECUSouth America · 2019 reading26.777.61income2019
13PanamaPANCentral America · 2019 reading26.6011.21income2019
14PeruPERSouth America · 2019 reading26.046.99income2019
15KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2019 reading25.376.38income2019
16ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2019 reading25.1311.64income2019
17ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2019 reading24.958.31income2019
18IranIRNSouthern Asia24.245.64consumption2019.23
19Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2019 reading24.2110.19income2019
20El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2019 reading23.396.67income2019
21North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2019 reading23.329.06income2019
22Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia · 2019 reading22.815.25consumption2019
23TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2019 reading22.7110.06income2019
24BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2019 reading22.669.60income2019
25IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2019 reading22.6018.93income2019

02In Societal Poverty Rate, 2019 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique81.63
  2. 2Malawi75.44
  3. 3Uganda59.78
  4. 4Zimbabwe49.22
  5. 5Honduras35.30

Lowest

  1. 79Czechia5.92
  2. 78Denmark6.79
  3. 77Slovenia6.96
  4. 76Iceland7.39
  5. 75Finland8.05

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 17.50. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Societal poverty line (2021 PPP $ a day)

    HighestNorway39.76

    Lowest4 share it

    Middle country: 11.21

032018 → 2019

Since the 2018 compilation

What changed between the 2018 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −27countries joined / left
  • 66values changed, of 67 in both
  • 29 · 37rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Kiribati+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ Uganda+ Vanuatu+ Zimbabwe− Angola− United Arab Emirates− Australia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Belize− Côte d’Ivoire− Guinea− Guinea-Bissau− Grenada− Jamaica− Laos− Mexico− Mali− Mongolia− Malaysia− Niger− Nigeria− Pakistan− Philippines− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Seychelles− Chad− Togo− Tanzania− 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 2019, from 2019 to 2019.

  • 78 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 22.22. 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.

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Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2019). Societal Poverty Rate, 2019 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/societal-poverty-rate/2019

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