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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2011 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2011; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2011 compilation covers 82 countries. Niger is highest, at 85.96; Denmark is lowest, at 0.00. The middle country reads 2.28. Against the 2010 compilation, 60 values changed (17 up, 43 down), 18 countries joined, 23 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2011

HighestNiger

85.96

LowestDenmark

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, 2011 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 82 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2011 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1NigerNERWestern Africa · 2011 reading85.96consumption2011
2BeninBENWestern Africa80.31consumption2011.33
3TogoTGOWestern Africa · 2011 reading77.74consumption2011
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa · 2011 reading73.33consumption2011
5TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa72.01consumption2011.77
6SenegalSENWestern Africa71.70consumption2011.29
7ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2011 reading63.73consumption2011
8IndiaINDSouthern Asia57.68consumption2011.5
9PakistanPAKSouthern Asia55.85consumption2011.5
10Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa54.97consumption2011.67
11IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2011 reading53.56consumption2011
12ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2011 reading53.53consumption2011
13GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2011 reading37.25consumption2011
14KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2011 reading31.89consumption2011
15HondurasHNDCentral America · 2011 reading29.79income2011
16ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2011 reading29.15consumption2011
17El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2011 reading20.73income2011
18KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2011 reading19.97consumption2011
19ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2011 reading19.92income2011
20PeruPERSouth America · 2011 reading17.69income2011
21North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2011 reading15.54income2011
22ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2011 reading14.84income2011
23ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2011 reading13.14consumption2011
24RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2011 reading13.00income2011
25BrazilBRASouth America · 2011 reading12.16income2011

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2011 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger85.96
  2. 2Benin80.31
  3. 3Togo77.74
  4. 4Sierra Leone73.33
  5. 5Tanzania72.01

Lowest

  1. 82Denmark0.00
  2. 81Switzerland0.01
  3. 80Slovenia0.02
  4. 79Cyprus0.03
  5. 77Franceshared0.06

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.28. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032010 → 2011

Since the 2010 compilation

What changed between the 2010 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +18 / −23countries joined / left
  • 60values changed, of 64 in both
  • 17 · 43rose · fell
  • 4unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Bolivia+ Brazil+ Chile+ Republic of the Congo+ Algeria+ India+ Iran+ Lebanon+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Senegal+ Sierra Leone+ Chad+ Togo+ Tanzania+ Zimbabwe− Australia− Bangladesh− Egypt− Ethiopia− Gambia− Guinea-Bissau− Jordan− South Korea− Madagascar− Mexico− Malawi− Nigeria− Nepal− Rwanda− Serbia− São Tomé and Príncipe− Tunisia− Tuvalu− Taiwan− Vietnam− Vanuatu− South Africa− 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 2011, from 2011 to 2011.

  • 80 distinct values among 82

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 0.85. 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 (2011). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2011 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-420/2011

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2011 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($4.20 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2011 compilation?

Niger, at 85.96, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2011 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2011 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, 2011 compilation the newest?

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

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