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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2009 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2009; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2009 compilation covers 83 countries. Burkina Faso is highest, at 82.30; Slovenia is lowest, at 0.02. The middle country reads 4.33. Against the 2008 compilation, 61 values changed (32 up, 29 down), 21 countries joined, 17 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2009

HighestBurkina Faso

82.30

LowestSlovenia

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, 2009 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 83 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2009 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2009 reading82.30consumption2009
2MaliMLIWestern Africa80.66consumption2009.89
3UgandaUGAEastern Africa78.69consumption2009.4
4EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa69.85consumption2009.25
5Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia69.43consumption2009.67
6IndiaINDSouthern Asia66.06consumption2009.5
7IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2009 reading63.84consumption2009
8South SudanSSDEastern Africa · 2009 reading59.22consumption2009
9NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa53.88consumption2009.54
10PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2009 reading38.89income2009
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2009 reading38.50consumption2009
12TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2009 reading37.08consumption2009
13BotswanaBWASouthern Africa33.94consumption2009.25
14KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2009 reading31.33consumption2009
15SudanSDNNorthern Africa · 2009 reading27.56consumption2009
16HondurasHNDCentral America · 2009 reading27.54income2009
17NicaraguaNICCentral America · 2009 reading26.44income2009
18KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2009 reading25.98consumption2009
19MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia25.88consumption2009.5
20ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2009 reading24.89income2009
21Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia24.17consumption2009.5
22El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2009 reading22.94income2009
23PeruPERSouth America · 2009 reading22.12income2009
24North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2009 reading18.61income2009
25ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2009 reading17.54income2009

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2009 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Burkina Faso82.30
  2. 2Mali80.66
  3. 3Uganda78.69
  4. 4Eswatini69.85
  5. 5Papua New Guinea69.43

Lowest

  1. 83Slovenia0.02
  2. 82Czechia0.06
  3. 80Luxembourgshared0.07
  4. 80Finlandshared0.07
  5. 78Icelandshared0.10

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 4.33. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since the 2008 compilation

What changed between the 2008 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +21 / −17countries joined / left
  • 61values changed, of 62 in both
  • 32 · 29rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burkina Faso+ Botswana+ Chile+ India+ Iran+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Mali+ Namibia+ Nicaragua+ Philippines+ Papua New Guinea+ Palestine+ Sudan+ South Sudan+ Eswatini+ Syria+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Uganda+ Kosovo− Angola− Albania− Australia− Central African Republic− China− Côte d’Ivoire− Egypt− Fiji− Jordan− South Korea− Mexico− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malaysia− Vietnam− Samoa− 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 2009, from 2009 to 2009.

  • 78 distinct values among 83

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 1.09. 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 83 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 (2009). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2009 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-420/2009

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2009 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($4.20 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2009 compilation?

Burkina Faso, at 82.30, of the 83 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2009 compilation cover?

83.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2009 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, 2009 compilation the newest?

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

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