Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2012 compilation

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2012 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.

Positionderived	Country	Population below $4.20 a day, 2021 PPP (%)	Survey measures	Survey year
1	DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	88.57	consumption	2012.4
2	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	80.51	consumption	2012.73
3	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	73.60	consumption	2012.45
4	Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia	62.93	consumption	2012.79
5	GhanaGHAWestern Africa	59.78	consumption	2012.8
6	HaitiHTICaribbean · 2012 reading	59.17	consumption	2012
7	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	57.69	consumption	2012.5
8	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2012 reading	49.93	consumption	2012
9	LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia	43.16	consumption	2012.25
10	GuineaGINWestern Africa · 2012 reading	42.67	consumption	2012
11	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa · 2012 reading	42.16	consumption	2012
12	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2012 reading	38.15	income	2012
13	HondurasHNDCentral America · 2012 reading	35.29	income	2012
14	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2012 reading	34.06	consumption	2012
15	KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2012 reading	32.54	consumption	2012
16	ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2012 reading	25.14	consumption	2012
17	NauruNRUMicronesia	21.74	consumption	2012.69
18	ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2012 reading	21.03	income	2012
19	Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia	20.09	consumption	2012.5
20	El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2012 reading	17.96	income	2012
21	PeruPERSouth America · 2012 reading	16.13	income	2012
22	MexicoMEXCentral America · 2012 reading	15.25	income	2012
23	North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2012 reading	14.06	income	2012
24	RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2012 reading	13.65	income	2012
25	KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2012 reading	12.43	consumption	2012

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

• +22 / −17countries joined / left
• 60values changed, of 65 in both
• 27 · 33rose · fell
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+ Albania+ Bhutan+ DR Congo+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Ghana+ Guinea+ Haiti+ Iraq+ South Korea+ Laos+ Sri Lanka+ Madagascar+ Mexico+ Mauritius+ Nigeria+ Nauru+ Philippines+ Solomon Islands+ Serbia+ Uganda+ Vietnam− Benin− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Chile− Republic of the Congo− Algeria− India− Lebanon− Malaysia− Niger− Pakistan− Palestine− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Chad− Togo− Tanzania− Zimbabwe

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.

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