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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2023 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2023; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2023 compilation covers 60 countries. Uganda is highest, at 72.30; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.02. The middle country reads 1.34. Against the 2022 compilation, 51 values changed (14 up, 37 down), 9 countries joined, 22 left.

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2023

HighestUganda

72.30

Lowest2 countries share it

0.02

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, 2023 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 60 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2023 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1UgandaUGAEastern Africa72.30consumption2023.17
2RwandaRWAEastern Africa62.21consumption2023.77
3HondurasHNDCentral America · 2023 reading26.61income2023
4IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading21.94consumption2023
5TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2023 reading18.14consumption2023
6GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2023 reading17.62income2023
7PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading16.87income2023
8KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2023 reading16.36consumption2023
9IndiaINDSouthern Asia16.12consumption2023.58
10ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2023 reading15.20income2023
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2023 reading14.02consumption2023
12PeruPERSouth America · 2023 reading11.70income2023
13EcuadorECUSouth America · 2023 reading9.96income2023
14El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2023 reading8.60income2023
15ArmeniaARMWestern Asia · 2023 reading8.42consumption2023
16IranIRNSouthern Asia7.53consumption2023.23
17BrazilBRASouth America · 2023 reading7.44income2023
18UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2023 reading7.27income2023
19PanamaPANCentral America · 2023 reading7.20income2023
20PalestinePSEWestern Asia · 2023 reading6.07consumption2023
21ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2023 reading5.79income2023
22KiribatiKIRMicronesia5.69consumption2023.42
23BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2023 reading5.11income2023
24Costa RicaCRICentral America · 2023 reading3.37income2023
25ArgentinaARGSouth America · 2023 reading3.11income2023

02In Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2023 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uganda72.30
  2. 2Rwanda62.21
  3. 3Honduras26.61
  4. 4Indonesia21.94
  5. 5Tajikistan18.14

Lowest

  1. 59Sloveniashared0.02
  2. 59Cyprusshared0.02
  3. 58Czechia0.05
  4. 56Irelandshared0.08
  5. 56Franceshared0.08

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 1.34. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since the 2022 compilation

What changed between the 2022 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −22countries joined / left
  • 51values changed, of 51 in both
  • 14 · 37rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ Iraq+ Kiribati+ Panama+ Philippines+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ Uganda− Bangladesh− Bhutan− Canada− Chile− China− Germany− Equatorial Guinea− Israel− Kenya− Lebanon− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Nigeria− Nepal− Suriname− Syria− Chad− Vietnam− Kosovo− South Africa− Zambia

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 2023, from 2023 to 2023.

  • 55 distinct values among 60

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 0.57. 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 60 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 (2023). Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-420/2023

0622 held

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2023 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty ($4.20 a day) in Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2023 compilation?

Uganda, at 72.30, of the 60 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2023 compilation cover?

60.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, 2023 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, 2023 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-29, when it was read from the publisher.

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