Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: poverty-headcount-lineup-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	171	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	171	0
Population below $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP, World Bank line-up estimate (%)poverty_headcount_lineupHeadline	The headline figure: Population below $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP, World Bank line-up estimate (%).	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.0014 share it89.54South Sudanmiddle 2.10	142	0
How the Bank estimated this yearestimation_typeLabel	How the World Bank arrived at this year’s figure: a household survey run that year, an interpolation between two surveys, or the nearest survey carried forward or back with economic growth.	Text	—	3	0
Survey measureswelfare_typeGrouping	Whether the household survey behind the figure measured income or consumption; the two are different yardsticks and consumption usually reads lower.	Text	—	2	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.

The newest 12 of 44 years.

Not in this dataset · 53 places this site covers

World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAmerican SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBahrainBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCambodiaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDominicaEritreaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamHong KongIsle of ManKuwaitLibyaLiechtensteinMacauMonacoMontserratNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsOmanPalauPuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSaudi ArabiaSingaporeSint MaartenSomaliaSomalilandTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group

   pip.worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates 2024

   pip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   44 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as poverty-headcount-lineup-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/poverty-headcount-lineup

Read from the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform with its gaps filled. The Bank’s model estimates for economies with no survey at all are left out, as the Bank leaves them off its own website, and years it labels as nowcasts are not included.

• Charted

  Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Poverty & Inequality
  • Development & Human Capital

• Near neighbours

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