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Dataset · World Bank Group
Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day
22 editions, 2002–2023 · 60 countries
This is the share of a country’s people living on less than $8.30 a day at 2021 purchasing power parities — the World Bank’s upper-middle-income poverty line. It exists because the $3.00 extreme-poverty line reads near zero across most of the middle-income world and so says very little about it.
This site holds every edition from 2002 to 2023, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day · the file
- Newest
- Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2023 compilation
- Held
- 22 editions · 1,737 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0122 editions
Every edition
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.
Show all 22 editions
| Edition | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2011 compilation | 82 | +18 −23 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2010 compilation | 87 | +25 −21 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2009 compilation | 83 | +21 −17 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2008 compilation | 79 | +21 −15 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2007 compilation | 73 | +14 −23 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2006 compilation | 82 | +23 −22 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2005 compilation | 81 | +22 −16 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2004 compilation | 75 | +22 −16 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2003 compilation | 69 | +26 −25 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2002 compilation | 68 | — | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: poverty-headcount-830-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
025 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2023 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 60 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 60 | 0 | |
Population below $8.30 a day, 2021 PPP (%)poverty_headcount_830Headline | The headline figure: Population below $8.30 a day, 2021 PPP (%). | Number · up to 2 decimals | 0.072 share it93.58 Ugandamiddle 7.82 | 58 | 0 | |
Survey measureswelfare_typeGrouping | World Bank Group’s own grouping of the country. | Text | — | 2 | 0 | |
Survey yearsurvey_yearReading year | The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side. | Year | — | 6 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.
03169 countries across every edition
Who is covered
How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 9 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 7 | 2 |
| Americas | 17 | 16 | 18 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 19 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 15 |
| Asia | 20 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 20 | 17 | 21 | 16 | 15 | 17 | 20 | 14 |
| Europe | 39 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 39 | 39 | 38 | 38 | 36 | 34 | 30 | 28 |
| Oceania | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| All | 87 | 78 | 84 | 87 | 84 | 79 | 94 | 79 | 71 | 82 | 73 | 60 |
The newest 12 of 22 editions.
Who joined and who left
- 2023 compilation
+ 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 - 2022 compilation+ 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 - 2021 compilation+ 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 - 2020 compilation+ 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 - 2019 compilation+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Kiribati+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ Uganda+ Vanuatu+ Zimbabwe
− Angola
− United Arab Emirates− Australia− Benin− Burkina Faso
− Belize− Côte d’Ivoire
− Guinea− Guinea-Bissau
− Grenada− Jamaica
− Laos− Mexico− Mali− Mongolia− Malaysia− Niger− Nigeria
− Pakistan− Philippines− Senegal
− Sierra Leone
− Seychelles− Chad− Togo
− Tanzania− Vietnam - 2018 compilation+ Angola+ United Arab Emirates+ Australia+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Belize+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guinea+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Jamaica+ Laos+ Mexico+ Mali+ Mongolia+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ Philippines+ Senegal+ Sierra Leone+ Seychelles+ Chad+ Togo+ Tanzania+ Vietnam− Bhutan− Chile
− Djibouti− Egypt
− Gabon
− Hungary
− Lesotho
− Myanmar
− Mauritius
− Qatar
− São Tomé and Príncipe− Zimbabwe - 2017 compilation+ Bhutan+ Chile+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Gabon+ Lesotho+ Myanmar+ Mauritius+ Qatar+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Zimbabwe− Australia− Bangladesh
− Barbados
− Ghana
− Liberia− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Mexico− Mongolia− Malawi− Palestine− Rwanda
− South Sudan
− Eswatini− Uganda− Vietnam - 2016 compilation
+ Argentina+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ Barbados+ Ghana+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ South Sudan+ Eswatini+ Taiwan+ Uganda+ Vietnam− 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
Not in this dataset · 55 places this site covers
World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
Afghanistan
American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Cambodia
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Cuba
Curaçao
Dominica
Eritrea
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Guyana
Hong Kong
Isle of Man
Kuwait
Libya
Liechtenstein
Macau
Monaco
Montserrat
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Niue
North Korea
Northern Mariana Islands
Oman
Palau
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sint Maarten
SomaliaSomaliland
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day 2023
3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
22 files, one per edition
Each downloads as a CSV, or every edition together as poverty-headcount-830-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 2 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
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.
Read from the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform, in a second request at the $8.30 line, rather than from its indicator API (SI.POV.UMIC), which rounds to one decimal.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 10, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: World Bank Group, Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group. Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, 2002–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-830
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Poverty and Inequality Platform. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
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07Questions
Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day: questions and answers
What is the Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day?
This is the share of a country’s people living on less than $8.30 a day at 2021 purchasing power parities — the World Bank’s upper-middle-income poverty line. It exists because the $3.00 extreme-poverty line reads near zero across most of the middle-income world and so says very little about it.
Which editions of the Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day can I download?
All 22, from 2002 to 2023, each as a CSV file, or every edition together in one CSV.
Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?
No. World Bank Group publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.