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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2003 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2003; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2003 compilation covers 69 countries. Uzbekistan is highest, at 97.23; Slovenia is lowest, at 0.00. The middle country reads 12.93. Against the 2002 compilation, 40 values changed (19 up, 21 down), 26 countries joined, 25 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2003

HighestUzbekistan

97.23

LowestSlovenia

0.00

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2003 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.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2003 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2003 reading97.23consumption2003
2BeninBENWestern Africa · 2003 reading84.15consumption2003
3Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa83.87consumption2003.25
4ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2003 reading81.81consumption2003
5Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2003 reading81.08consumption2003
6KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2003 reading76.39consumption2003
7TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2003 reading76.22consumption2003
8NepalNPLSouthern Asia74.09consumption2003.25
9IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2003 reading71.33consumption2003
10GambiaGMBWestern Africa69.37consumption2003.29
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa69.25consumption2003.67
12NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa61.74consumption2003.67
13HondurasHNDCentral America · 2003 reading45.32income2003
14BhutanBTNSouthern Asia · 2003 reading41.62consumption2003
15PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2003 reading41.04income2003
16GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2003 reading40.07consumption2003
17VenezuelaVENSouth America · 2003 reading39.76income2003
18ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2003 reading39.69consumption2003
19PeruPERSouth America · 2003 reading34.62income2003
20KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2003 reading33.51consumption2003
21ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2003 reading32.21income2003
22El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2003 reading29.91income2003
23EcuadorECUSouth America · 2003 reading29.84income2003
24KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2003 reading28.72consumption2003
25BrazilBRASouth America · 2003 reading26.28income2003

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2003 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uzbekistan97.23
  2. 2Benin84.15
  3. 3Sierra Leone83.87
  4. 4Chad81.81
  5. 5Burkina Faso81.08

Lowest

  1. 69Slovenia0.00
  2. 67Icelandshared0.09
  3. 67Finlandshared0.09
  4. 66Luxembourg0.11
  5. 64Franceshared0.20

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 12.93. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since the 2002 compilation

What changed between the 2002 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +26 / −25countries joined / left
  • 40values changed, of 43 in both
  • 19 · 21rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Austria+ Belgium+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bulgaria+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Denmark+ Ecuador+ Spain+ Finland+ Gambia+ Iceland+ Malaysia+ Namibia+ Nigeria+ Norway+ Nepal+ Philippines+ Portugal+ Sierra Leone+ Syria+ Chad+ Tajikistan+ Kosovo− Albania− Bolivia− Botswana− Switzerland− China− Côte d’Ivoire− Czechia− Djibouti− Fiji− Guinea− Guinea-Bissau− Jamaica− Jordan− Laos− Sri Lanka− Lesotho− Maldives− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Thailand− Uganda− Vietnam− Samoa− 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.

The site’s method
  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2003, from 2003 to 2003.

  • 62 distinct values among 69

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 3 countries share 1.20. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 69 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. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2003). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2003 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-420/2003

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2003 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($4.20 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2003 compilation?

Uzbekistan, at 97.23, of the 69 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2003 compilation cover?

69.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2003 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2003 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2023 compilation.

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