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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2010 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2010; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2010 compilation covers 87 countries. Guinea-Bissau is highest, at 85.33; Slovenia is lowest, at 0.01. The middle country reads 3.42. Against the 2009 compilation, 60 values changed (30 up, 30 down), 25 countries joined, 21 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2010

HighestGuinea-Bissau

85.33

LowestSlovenia

0.01

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, 2010 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, 2010 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa · 2010 reading85.33consumption2010
2MalawiMWIEastern Africa85.20consumption2010.23
3RwandaRWAEastern Africa82.74consumption2010.83
4ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2010 reading81.39consumption2010
5MadagascarMDGEastern Africa · 2010 reading79.79consumption2010
6EthiopiaETHEastern Africa64.39consumption2010.5
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa58.73consumption2010.5
8PakistanPAKSouthern Asia57.24consumption2010.5
9IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2010 reading56.73consumption2010
10GambiaGMBWestern Africa52.86consumption2010.08
11BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia · 2010 reading52.13consumption2010
12VanuatuVUTMelanesia · 2010 reading44.38consumption2010
13NepalNPLSouthern Asia44.32consumption2010.17
14South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa · 2010 reading41.23consumption2010
15São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa · 2010 reading39.79consumption2010
16GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2010 reading39.53consumption2010
17ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2010 reading34.92consumption2010
18KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2010 reading32.92consumption2010
19HondurasHNDCentral America · 2010 reading29.54income2010
20KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2010 reading26.07consumption2010
21ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2010 reading22.62income2010
22El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2010 reading22.09income2010
23TuvaluTUVPolynesia · 2010 reading21.24consumption2010
24PeruPERSouth America · 2010 reading19.42income2010
25North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2010 reading17.93income2010

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2010 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Guinea-Bissau85.33
  2. 2Malawi85.20
  3. 3Rwanda82.74
  4. 4Zambia81.39
  5. 5Madagascar79.79

Lowest

  1. 87Slovenia0.01
  2. 86Luxembourg0.04
  3. 85Finland0.07
  4. 84Cyprus0.10
  5. 83Netherlands0.11

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.42. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032009 → 2010

Since the 2009 compilation

What changed between the 2009 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +25 / −21countries joined / left
  • 60values changed, of 62 in both
  • 30 · 30rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ China+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Gambia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jordan+ South Korea+ Madagascar+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Nigeria+ Nepal+ Pakistan+ Rwanda+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Tunisia+ Tuvalu+ Taiwan+ Vietnam+ Vanuatu+ South Africa+ Zambia− Burkina Faso− Bolivia− Brazil− Botswana− Chile− India− Iran− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Mali− Namibia− Nicaragua− Philippines− Papua New Guinea− Sudan− South Sudan− Eswatini− Syria− Tajikistan− Tonga− Uganda

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 2010, from 2010 to 2010.

  • 79 distinct values among 87

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 3.76. 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 87 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 (2010). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2010 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-420/2010

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2010 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($4.20 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2010 compilation?

Guinea-Bissau, at 85.33, of the 87 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2010 compilation cover?

87.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2010 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, 2010 compilation the newest?

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

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