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Societal Poverty Rate, 2020 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2020; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Societal Poverty Rate, 2020 compilation covers 71 countries on 2 measures. DR Congo is highest, at 85.32; Czechia is lowest, at 6.91. The middle country reads 15.92. Against the 2019 compilation, 60 values changed (28 up, 32 down), 9 countries joined, 17 left.

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Societal Poverty Rate · Latest available · compiled 2020

HighestDR Congo

85.32

LowestCzechia

6.91

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, 2020 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 71 countries · select a heading to sort

Societal Poverty Rate, 2020 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1DR CongoCODMiddle Africa · 2020 reading85.323.000consumption2020
2BurundiBDIEastern Africa74.203.000consumption2020.15
3KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2020 reading44.433.000consumption2020
4GambiaGMBWestern Africa33.583.729consumption2020.08
5ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2020 reading33.305.602income2020
6KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2020 reading29.506.657income2020
7PeruPERSouth America · 2020 reading29.205.604income2020
8GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2020 reading28.564.521consumption2020
9IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2020 reading27.484.276consumption2020
10EcuadorECUSouth America · 2020 reading26.846.715income2020
11KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2020 reading26.323.944consumption2020
12ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2020 reading26.224.230consumption2020
13ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2020 reading26.1410.378income2020
14Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2020 reading25.868.907income2020
15MexicoMEXCentral America · 2020 reading25.086.605income2020
16ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2020 reading25.017.769income2020
17IranIRNSouthern Asia23.805.557consumption2020.23
18BrazilBRASouth America · 2020 reading23.448.982income2020
19BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2020 reading22.819.228income2020
20TürkiyeTURWestern Asia · 2020 reading22.3310.201income2020
21IsraelISRWestern Asia · 2020 reading22.0018.740income2020
22MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2020 reading21.879.325income2020
23UruguayURYSouth America · 2020 reading21.7413.683income2020
24RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2020 reading21.6013.244income2020
25ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2020 reading21.057.156consumption2020

02In Societal Poverty Rate, 2020 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1DR Congo85.32
  2. 2Burundi74.20
  3. 3Kenya44.43
  4. 4Gambia33.58
  5. 5Colombia33.30

Lowest

  1. 71Czechia6.91
  2. 70Slovenia7.02
  3. 69Denmark7.48
  4. 68Finland7.65
  5. 67Ireland8.15

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 15.92. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Societal poverty line (2021 PPP $ a day)

    HighestLuxembourg43.315

    Lowest3 share it

    Middle country: 13.843

032019 → 2020

Since the 2019 compilation

What changed between the 2019 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −17countries joined / left
  • 60values changed, of 62 in both
  • 28 · 32rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Burundi+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Mexico+ Vietnam− Egypt− Fiji− Honduras− Iceland− Kiribati− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Marshall Islands− North Macedonia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malawi− Panama− El Salvador− Uganda− Vanuatu− Zimbabwe

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 2020, from 2020 to 2020.

  • 70 distinct values among 71

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 14.10. 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 71 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 (2020). Societal Poverty Rate, 2020 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/societal-poverty-rate/2020

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07Questions

Societal Poverty Rate, 2020 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest societal poverty rate in Societal Poverty Rate, 2020 compilation?

DR Congo, at 85.32, of the 71 countries in the file.

How many countries does Societal Poverty Rate, 2020 compilation cover?

71.

Where can I download Societal Poverty Rate, 2020 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, 2020 compilation the newest?

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

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