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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2006 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2006; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2006 compilation covers 82 countries. Burundi is highest, at 91.00; Luxembourg is lowest, at 0.00. The middle country reads 3.74. Against the 2005 compilation, 54 values changed (12 up, 42 down), 23 countries joined, 22 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2006

HighestBurundi

91.00

LowestLuxembourg

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, 2006 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, 2006 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1BurundiBDIEastern Africa · 2006 reading91.00consumption2006
2ZambiaZMBEastern Africa81.50consumption2006.5
3TogoTGOWestern Africa · 2006 reading79.93consumption2006
4MaliMLIWestern Africa79.32consumption2006.25
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2006 reading71.82consumption2006
6KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2006 reading47.45consumption2006
7VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2006 reading43.89consumption2006
8PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2006 reading42.84income2006
9GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2006 reading40.03consumption2006
10KiribatiKIRMicronesia · 2006 reading39.96consumption2006
11HondurasHNDCentral America · 2006 reading36.98income2006
12KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2006 reading32.53consumption2006
13PeruPERSouth America · 2006 reading32.34income2006
14Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia30.19consumption2006.5
15MoroccoMARNorthern Africa23.15consumption2006.91
16El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2006 reading22.95income2006
17BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2006 reading22.46income2006
18ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2006 reading22.38income2006
19PanamaPANCentral America · 2006 reading22.14income2006
20BrazilBRASouth America · 2006 reading19.58income2006
21EcuadorECUSouth America · 2006 reading19.40income2006
22RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2006 reading18.26income2006
23GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2006 reading18.20income2006
24MexicoMEXCentral America · 2006 reading17.03income2006
25VenezuelaVENSouth America · 2006 reading16.37income2006

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2006 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Burundi91.00
  2. 2Zambia81.50
  3. 3Togo79.93
  4. 4Mali79.32
  5. 5Indonesia71.82

Lowest

  1. 82Luxembourg0.00
  2. 81Cyprus0.03
  3. 80France0.05
  4. 79Czechia0.08
  5. 77Sloveniashared0.10

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.74. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since the 2005 compilation

What changed between the 2005 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −22countries joined / left
  • 54values changed, of 59 in both
  • 12 · 42rose · fell
  • 5unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burundi+ Bulgaria+ Switzerland+ Chile+ Guatemala+ Iraq+ Jordan+ Kiribati+ South Korea+ Sri Lanka+ Morocco+ Mali+ Malta+ Mauritius+ Malaysia+ Philippines+ Seychelles+ Syria+ Togo+ Thailand+ Uruguay+ Vietnam+ Zambia− Albania− Azerbaijan− Bangladesh− China− Republic of the Congo− Colombia− Micronesia− Gabon− Ghana− Kenya− Madagascar− Niger− Nicaragua− Pakistan− Rwanda− Senegal− Solomon Islands− Tunisia− Taiwan− Uganda− Yemen− South Africa

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 2006, from 2006 to 2006.

  • 80 distinct values among 82

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 2.89. 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 82 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 (2006). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2006 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-420/2006

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2006 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($4.20 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2006 compilation?

Burundi, at 91.00, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2006 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2006 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, 2006 compilation the newest?

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

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