Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Latest available · compiled 2020

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2020 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2020; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2020 compilation covers 71 countries. DR Congo is highest, at 92.51; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 1.10. Against the 2019 compilation, 60 values changed (34 up, 26 down), 9 countries joined, 17 left.

Download CSVCite this edition
Share

Share this page

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2020

HighestDR Congo

92.51

Lowest2 countries share it

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, 2020 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 71 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2020 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1DR CongoCODMiddle Africa · 2020 reading92.51consumption2020
2BurundiBDIEastern Africa87.18consumption2020.15
3KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2020 reading65.65consumption2020
4GambiaGMBWestern Africa40.24consumption2020.08
5KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2020 reading31.85consumption2020
6IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2020 reading26.37consumption2020
7ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2020 reading25.89consumption2020
8GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2020 reading25.22consumption2020
9ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2020 reading23.81income2020
10KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2020 reading21.57income2020
11PeruPERSouth America · 2020 reading18.89income2020
12EcuadorECUSouth America · 2020 reading13.46income2020
13IranIRNSouthern Asia12.24consumption2020.23
14MexicoMEXCentral America · 2020 reading9.58income2020
15ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2020 reading6.72consumption2020
16BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2020 reading6.56income2020
17ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2020 reading6.50income2020
18Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2020 reading6.41income2020
19BrazilBRASouth America · 2020 reading5.39income2020
20MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2020 reading4.92income2020
21Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2020 reading4.32income2020
22ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2020 reading4.23income2020
23RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2020 reading4.05income2020
24VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2020 reading3.65consumption2020
25SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2020 reading3.19income2020

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2020 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1DR Congo92.51
  2. 2Burundi87.18
  3. 3Kenya65.65
  4. 4Gambia40.24
  5. 5Kyrgyzstan31.85

Lowest

  1. 70Sloveniashared0.00
  2. 70Luxembourgshared0.00
  3. 69Czechia0.02
  4. 68Finland0.04
  5. 67Cyprus0.06

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.10. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since the 2019 compilation

What changed between the 2019 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −17countries joined / left
  • 60values changed, of 62 in both
  • 34 · 26rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Burundi+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Gambia+ Kenya+ Mexico+ Vietnam− Egypt− Fiji− Honduras− Iceland− Kiribati− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Marshall Islands− North Macedonia− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malawi− Panama− El Salvador− Uganda− Vanuatu− 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.

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 2020, from 2020 to 2020.

  • 63 distinct values among 71

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 4 countries share 0.20. 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 71 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 (2020). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2020 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-420/2020

0622 held

Other editions

07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2020 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($4.20 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2020 compilation?

DR Congo, at 92.51, of the 71 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2020 compilation cover?

71.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2020 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, 2020 compilation the newest?

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

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.