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Societal Poverty Rate, 2023 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2023; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Societal Poverty Rate, 2023 compilation covers 60 countries on 2 measures. Uganda is highest, at 54.36; Slovenia is lowest, at 7.00. The middle country reads 17.20. Against the 2022 compilation, 51 values changed (22 up, 29 down), 9 countries joined, 22 left.

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Societal Poverty Rate · Latest available · compiled 2023

HighestUganda

54.36

LowestSlovenia

7.00

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, 2023 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 60 countries · select a heading to sort

Societal Poverty Rate, 2023 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UgandaUGAEastern Africa54.363.00consumption2023.17
2RwandaRWAEastern Africa39.923.06consumption2023.77
3HondurasHNDCentral America · 2023 reading32.645.06income2023
4ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2023 reading29.936.64income2023
5GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2023 reading28.975.67income2023
6BrazilBRASouth America · 2023 reading26.999.19income2023
7EcuadorECUSouth America · 2023 reading26.427.51income2023
8TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2023 reading26.195.10consumption2023
9PanamaPANCentral America · 2023 reading26.1210.25income2023
10PeruPERSouth America · 2023 reading25.926.43income2023
11PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading25.344.90income2023
12ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2023 reading24.9210.57income2023
13IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading24.754.38consumption2023
14GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2023 reading24.565.51consumption2023
15Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2023 reading24.2510.76income2023
16ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2023 reading23.688.47income2023
17El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2023 reading23.617.24income2023
18PalestinePSEWestern Asia · 2023 reading23.107.32consumption2023
19BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2023 reading22.709.73income2023
20IranIRNSouthern Asia21.816.39consumption2023.23
21UruguayURYSouth America · 2023 reading21.1814.24income2023
22Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2023 reading20.619.14income2023
23UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2023 reading20.587.58income2023
24KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2023 reading20.554.47consumption2023
25United StatesUSANorthern America · 2023 reading19.9036.17income2023

02In Societal Poverty Rate, 2023 compilation

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Uganda54.36
  2. 2Rwanda39.92
  3. 3Honduras32.64
  4. 4Colombia29.93
  5. 5Guatemala28.97

Lowest

  1. 60Slovenia7.00
  2. 59Denmark7.38
  3. 58Czechia8.35
  4. 57Norway8.48
  5. 56Ireland8.62

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 17.20. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Societal poverty line (2021 PPP $ a day)

    HighestLuxembourg46.04

    LowestUganda3.00

    Middle country: 12.68

032022 → 2023

Since the 2022 compilation

What changed between the 2022 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −22countries joined / left
  • 51values changed, of 51 in both
  • 22 · 29rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ Iraq+ Kiribati+ Panama+ Philippines+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ Uganda− Bangladesh− Bhutan− Canada− Chile− China− Germany− Equatorial Guinea− Israel− Kenya− Lebanon− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Nigeria− Nepal− Suriname− Syria− Chad− Vietnam− Kosovo− South Africa− Zambia

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 2023, from 2023 to 2023.

  • 59 distinct values among 60

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 12.35. 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 60 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 (2023). Societal Poverty Rate, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/societal-poverty-rate/2023

0622 held

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07Questions

Societal Poverty Rate, 2023 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest societal poverty rate in Societal Poverty Rate, 2023 compilation?

Uganda, at 54.36, of the 60 countries in the file.

How many countries does Societal Poverty Rate, 2023 compilation cover?

60.

Where can I download Societal Poverty Rate, 2023 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, 2023 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-26, when it was read from the publisher.

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