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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2004 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2004; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2004 compilation covers 75 countries. DR Congo is highest, at 97.79; Luxembourg is lowest, at 0.02. The middle country reads 7.77. Against the 2003 compilation, 51 values changed (16 up, 35 down), 22 countries joined, 16 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2004

HighestDR Congo

97.79

LowestLuxembourg

0.02

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, 2004 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 75 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2004 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1DR CongoCODMiddle Africa97.79consumption2004.89
2MalawiMWIEastern Africa86.74consumption2004.23
3ZambiaZMBEastern Africa79.16consumption2004.67
4IndiaINDSouthern Asia74.51consumption2004.5
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2004 reading71.68consumption2004
6EthiopiaETHEastern Africa69.92consumption2004.5
7PakistanPAKSouthern Asia68.51consumption2004.5
8TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2004 reading59.71consumption2004
9KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2004 reading54.19consumption2004
10VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2004 reading53.42consumption2004
11MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa49.39consumption2004.55
12HondurasHNDCentral America · 2004 reading44.40income2004
13ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2004 reading40.70consumption2004
14GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2004 reading37.13consumption2004
15PeruPERSouth America · 2004 reading34.78income2004
16VenezuelaVENSouth America · 2004 reading34.20income2004
17ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2004 reading32.08income2004
18EcuadorECUSouth America · 2004 reading30.93income2004
19ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2004 reading29.04consumption2004
20MoldovaMDAEastern Europe · 2004 reading26.79consumption2004
21El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2004 reading25.95income2004
22Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2004 reading24.95income2004
23BrazilBRASouth America · 2004 reading24.66income2004
24PanamaPANCentral America · 2004 reading22.83income2004
25KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia · 2004 reading22.30consumption2004

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2004 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1DR Congo97.79
  2. 2Malawi86.74
  3. 3Zambia79.16
  4. 4India74.51
  5. 5Indonesia71.68

Lowest

  1. 75Luxembourg0.02
  2. 74Czechia0.03
  3. 73Finland0.07
  4. 72Austria0.09
  5. 70Irelandshared0.10

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 7.77. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032003 → 2004

Since the 2003 compilation

What changed between the 2003 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −16countries joined / left
  • 51values changed, of 53 in both
  • 16 · 35rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Bolivia+ Switzerland+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Cyprus+ Czechia+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Croatia+ India+ Jamaica+ Mexico+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ Netherlands+ Pakistan+ Palestine+ Slovakia+ Thailand+ Vietnam+ Zambia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bulgaria− Bhutan− Chile− Gambia− Malaysia− Namibia− Nigeria− Nepal− Philippines− Sierra Leone− Syria− Chad− Uzbekistan− Kosovo

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 2004, from 2004 to 2004.

  • 71 distinct values among 75

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 1.07. 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 75 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 (2004). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2004 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-420/2004

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2004 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($4.20 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2004 compilation?

DR Congo, at 97.79, of the 75 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2004 compilation cover?

75.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2004 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, 2004 compilation the newest?

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

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