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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2022 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2022; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2022 compilation covers 73 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 89.08; Cyprus is lowest, at 0.01. The middle country reads 1.71. Against the 2021 compilation, 54 values changed (25 up, 29 down), 17 countries joined, 26 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2022

HighestMozambique

89.08

LowestCyprus

0.01

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, 2022 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, 2022 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
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1MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa89.08consumption2022.08
2ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2022 reading81.42consumption2022
3KenyaKENEastern Africa65.49consumption2022.67
4NigeriaNGAWestern Africa64.02consumption2022.71
5ChadTCDMiddle Africa · 2022 reading61.41consumption2022
6SyriaSYRWestern Asia · 2022 reading42.06consumption2022
7South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa30.20consumption2022.85
8IndiaINDSouthern Asia23.89consumption2022.58
9IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2022 reading23.72consumption2022
10KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2022 reading22.06consumption2022
11Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa21.47consumption2022.61
12BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia · 2022 reading20.46consumption2022
13TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2022 reading18.91consumption2022
14GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2022 reading17.84consumption2022
15ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2022 reading15.84income2022
16LebanonLBNWestern Asia15.68consumption2022.8
17KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2022 reading14.86income2022
18PeruPERSouth America · 2022 reading10.65income2022
19ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2022 reading10.05consumption2022
20El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2022 reading9.62income2022
21EcuadorECUSouth America · 2022 reading9.22income2022
22NepalNPLSouthern Asia9.10consumption2022.5
23BrazilBRASouth America · 2022 reading8.52income2022
24UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2022 reading8.25income2022
25IranIRNSouthern Asia8.17consumption2022.23

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2022 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mozambique89.08
  2. 2Zambia81.42
  3. 3Kenya65.49
  4. 4Nigeria64.02
  5. 5Chad61.41

Lowest

  1. 73Cyprus0.01
  2. 72Slovenia0.06
  3. 71Belgium0.07
  4. 68Franceshared0.11
  5. 68Finlandshared0.11

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.71. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since the 2021 compilation

What changed between the 2021 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +17 / −26countries joined / left
  • 54values changed, of 56 in both
  • 25 · 29rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bangladesh+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Equatorial Guinea+ India+ Lebanon+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Nigeria+ Nepal+ Suriname+ Syria+ Chad+ Vietnam+ South Africa+ Zambia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Central African Republic− Côte d’Ivoire− Cameroon− Egypt− Ethiopia− United Kingdom− Guinea-Bissau− Jamaica− Kazakhstan− South Korea− Madagascar− Mali− Montenegro− Malaysia− Niger− Netherlands− Panama− Philippines− Senegal− Togo− Tonga− Tunisia− Taiwan

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 2022, from 2022 to 2022.

  • 68 distinct values among 73

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 3 countries share 0.11. 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 73 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 (2022). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2022 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-420/2022

0622 held

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2022 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($4.20 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2022 compilation?

Mozambique, at 89.08, of the 73 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2022 compilation cover?

73.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2022 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, 2022 compilation the newest?

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

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