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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2021 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2021; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2021 compilation covers 82 countries. Central African Republic is highest, at 83.92; Slovenia is lowest, at 0.00. The middle country reads 1.93. Against the 2020 compilation, 55 values changed (17 up, 38 down), 23 countries joined, 12 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2021

HighestCentral African Republic

83.92

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, 2021 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, 2021 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2021 reading83.92consumption2021
2MadagascarMDGEastern Africa83.87consumption2021.75
3NigerNERWestern Africa79.72consumption2021.5
4KenyaKENEastern Africa · 2021 reading67.86consumption2021
5Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa64.55consumption2021.67
6EthiopiaETHEastern Africa · 2021 reading63.75consumption2021
7Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa62.08consumption2021.75
8MaliMLIWestern Africa59.53consumption2021.57
9TogoTGOWestern Africa55.63consumption2021.63
10BeninBENWestern Africa50.00consumption2021.75
11Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa41.64consumption2021.75
12CameroonCMRMiddle Africa41.26consumption2021.67
13SenegalSENWestern Africa37.32consumption2021.71
14KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2021 reading28.39income2021
15IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading24.16consumption2021
16KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2021 reading23.32consumption2021
17TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2021 reading22.65consumption2021
18GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2021 reading22.29consumption2021
19PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2021 reading21.34income2021
20ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2021 reading18.36income2021
21BrazilBRASouth America · 2021 reading11.48income2021
22PeruPERSouth America · 2021 reading11.17income2021
23EcuadorECUSouth America · 2021 reading10.77income2021
24IranIRNSouthern Asia10.10consumption2021.23
25El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2021 reading9.81income2021

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2021 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Central African Republic83.92
  2. 2Madagascar83.87
  3. 3Niger79.72
  4. 4Kenya67.86
  5. 5Burkina Faso64.55

Lowest

  1. 82Slovenia0.00
  2. 81Finland0.05
  3. 79Cyprusshared0.06
  4. 79Switzerlandshared0.06
  5. 78Czechia0.08

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.93. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since the 2020 compilation

What changed between the 2020 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +23 / −12countries joined / left
  • 55values changed, of 59 in both
  • 17 · 38rose · fell
  • 4unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Central African Republic+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jamaica+ Madagascar+ Mali+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Panama+ Philippines+ Senegal+ El Salvador+ Togo+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uzbekistan− Albania− Australia− Burundi− Belarus− Chile− DR Congo− Comoros− Gambia− Japan− Mexico− Ukraine− Vietnam

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 2021, from 2021 to 2021.

  • 76 distinct values among 82

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 3 countries share 0.41. 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.

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Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2021). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2021 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-420/2021

0622 held

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2021 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($4.20 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2021 compilation?

Central African Republic, at 83.92, of the 82 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2021 compilation cover?

82.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2021 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, 2021 compilation the newest?

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

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