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Societal Poverty Rate, 2021 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2021; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Societal Poverty Rate, 2021 compilation covers 82 countries on 2 measures. Central African Republic is highest, at 71.62; Slovenia is lowest, at 6.71. The middle country reads 17.97. Against the 2020 compilation, 59 values changed (24 up, 35 down), 23 countries joined, 12 left.

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Societal Poverty Rate · Latest available · compiled 2021

HighestCentral African Republic

71.62

LowestSlovenia

6.71

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, 2021 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 82 countries · select a heading to sort

Societal Poverty Rate, 2021 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2021 reading71.623.000consumption2021
2MadagascarMDGEastern Africa69.173.000consumption2021.75
3NigerNERWestern Africa60.493.000consumption2021.5
4KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2021 reading46.453.000consumption2021
5Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa42.063.000consumption2021.67
6Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa40.423.025consumption2021.75
7EthiopiaETHEastern Africa · 2021 reading39.733.043consumption2021
8MaliMLIWestern Africa39.423.135consumption2021.57
9TogoTGOWestern Africa38.893.226consumption2021.63
10CameroonCMRMiddle Africa36.893.793consumption2021.67
11KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2021 reading35.575.699income2021
12BeninBENWestern Africa35.033.400consumption2021.75
13Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa32.463.679consumption2021.75
14SenegalSENWestern Africa31.493.818consumption2021.71
15ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2021 reading30.926.049income2021
16BrazilBRASouth America · 2021 reading28.857.900income2021
17GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2021 reading27.864.688consumption2021
18TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2021 reading27.374.597consumption2021
19PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading27.164.667income2021
20EcuadorECUSouth America · 2021 reading27.127.269income2021
21IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading26.764.375consumption2021
22PanamaPANCentral America · 2021 reading25.9910.005income2021
23PeruPERSouth America · 2021 reading25.126.301income2021
24El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2021 reading25.036.877income2021
25Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2021 reading24.7810.026income2021

02In Societal Poverty Rate, 2021 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Central African Republic71.62
  2. 2Madagascar69.17
  3. 3Niger60.49
  4. 4Kenya46.45
  5. 5Burkina Faso42.06

Lowest

  1. 82Slovenia6.71
  2. 81Czechia6.90
  3. 80Ireland7.71
  4. 79Finland7.83
  5. 78Denmark8.04

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 17.97. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Societal poverty line (2021 PPP $ a day)

    HighestLuxembourg44.361

    Lowest5 share it

    Middle country: 10.108

032020 → 2021

Since the 2020 compilation

What changed between the 2020 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −12countries joined / left
  • 59values changed, of 59 in both
  • 24 · 35rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Central African Republic+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jamaica+ Madagascar+ Mali+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Panama+ Philippines+ Senegal+ El Salvador+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uzbekistan− Albania− Australia− Burundi− Belarus− Chile− DR Congo− Comoros− Gambia− Japan− Mexico− Ukraine− 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 2021, from 2021 to 2021.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 82 countries has every column.

05The files

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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 (2021). Societal Poverty Rate, 2021 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/societal-poverty-rate/2021

0622 held

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07Questions

Societal Poverty Rate, 2021 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest societal poverty rate in Societal Poverty Rate, 2021 compilation?

Central African Republic, at 71.62, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Societal Poverty Rate, 2021 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Societal Poverty Rate, 2021 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, 2021 compilation the newest?

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

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