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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1981

1981, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1981 covers 168 countries. Equatorial Guinea is highest, at 99.40; 14 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 14.67.

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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates · Data for 1981

HighestEquatorial Guinea

99.40

Lowest14 countries share it

0.00

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1981, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 168 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1981: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa99.40extrapolationconsumption
ChinaCHNEastern Asia97.00surveyincome
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa93.56extrapolationconsumption
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia91.66extrapolationconsumption
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa89.07extrapolationconsumption
MaliMLIWestern Africa88.90extrapolationconsumption
BurundiBDIEastern Africa88.02extrapolationconsumption
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia87.69extrapolationconsumption
GuineaGINWestern Africa87.47extrapolationconsumption
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa86.29extrapolationconsumption
NepalNPLSouthern Asia85.21extrapolationincome
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia85.20extrapolationconsumption
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa82.35extrapolationconsumption
RwandaRWAEastern Africa79.80extrapolationconsumption
NigerNERWestern Africa79.17extrapolationconsumption
ChadTCDMiddle Africa78.12extrapolationconsumption
GhanaGHAWestern Africa77.51extrapolationconsumption
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa77.38extrapolationconsumption
SenegalSENWestern Africa76.22extrapolationconsumption
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia75.88extrapolationconsumption
GambiaGMBWestern Africa75.62extrapolationconsumption
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa75.48extrapolationconsumption
BeninBENWestern Africa75.24extrapolationconsumption
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia75.07extrapolationconsumption
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa74.18extrapolationconsumption

02In 1981

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Equatorial Guinea99.40
  2. China97.00
  3. Eswatini93.56
  4. Myanmar91.66
  5. Burkina Faso89.07

Lowest

  1. Trinidad and Tobagoshared0.00
  2. Sloveniashared0.00
  3. Romaniashared0.00
  4. Qatarshared0.00
  5. Polandshared0.00

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 14.67. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1981.

  • 146 distinct values among 168

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 14 countries share 0.00. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 168 countries has every column.

04The files

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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 (1981). Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1981 [data set], describing 1981. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-lineup/1981

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06Questions

Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1981: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty, line-up estimates ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1981?

Equatorial Guinea, at 99.40, of the 168 countries in the file.

What year does Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1981 describe?

1981.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1981 cover?

168.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1981?

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 at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1981 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 2024.

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