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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2015 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2015; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2015 compilation covers 87 countries. Benin is highest, at 83.40; Slovenia is lowest, at 0.00. The middle country reads 3.04. Against the 2014 compilation, 61 values changed (22 up, 39 down), 22 countries joined, 19 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2015

HighestBenin

83.40

LowestSlovenia

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, 2015 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, 2015 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1BeninBENWestern Africa · 2015 reading83.40consumption2015
2ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2015 reading78.42consumption2015
3TogoTGOWestern Africa · 2015 reading76.25consumption2015
4Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa · 2015 reading64.65consumption2015
5KenyaKENEastern Africa56.85consumption2015.67
6EthiopiaETHEastern Africa56.07consumption2015.5
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa55.80consumption2015.5
8PakistanPAKSouthern Asia44.78consumption2015.5
9IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2015 reading43.44consumption2015
10MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia · 2015 reading40.65consumption2015
11GambiaGMBWestern Africa37.69consumption2015.31
12BotswanaBWASouthern Africa35.77consumption2015.85
13NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa35.01consumption2015.27
14KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2015 reading34.57consumption2015
15PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2015 reading30.75income2015
16HondurasHNDCentral America · 2015 reading30.63income2015
17TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2015 reading29.79consumption2015
18Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa · 2015 reading29.69consumption2015
19GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2015 reading23.83consumption2015
20ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2015 reading17.38income2015
21TongaTONPolynesia · 2015 reading15.08consumption2015
22PeruPERSouth America · 2015 reading14.01income2015
23El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2015 reading13.02income2015
24RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2015 reading12.93income2015
25SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2015 reading12.31income2015

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2015 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Benin83.40
  2. 2Zambia78.42
  3. 3Togo76.25
  4. 4Côte d’Ivoire64.65
  5. 5Kenya56.85

Lowest

  1. 87Slovenia0.00
  2. 86Czechia0.02
  3. 84Icelandshared0.03
  4. 84Switzerlandshared0.03
  5. 83Cyprus0.09

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 3.04. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since the 2014 compilation

What changed between the 2014 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −19countries joined / left
  • 61values changed, of 65 in both
  • 22 · 39rose · fell
  • 4unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Botswana+ Chile+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cabo Verde+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Saint Lucia+ Myanmar+ Malaysia+ Namibia+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Zambia− Argentina− Australia− Burkina Faso− Cameroon− Comoros− Guatemala− South Korea− Liberia− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Niger− Nicaragua− Sudan− Timor-Leste− Vietnam− 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 2015, from 2015 to 2015.

  • 81 distinct values among 87

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 0.83. 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 (2015). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2015 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-420/2015

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2015 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($4.20 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2015 compilation?

Benin, at 83.40, of the 87 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2015 compilation cover?

87.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2015 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, 2015 compilation the newest?

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

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