Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1989

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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1989: every country, as published by World Bank Group.

Country	Population below $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP, World Bank line-up estimate (%)	How the Bank estimated this year	Survey measures
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa	99.66	extrapolation	consumption
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia	93.23	extrapolation	consumption
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	91.37	extrapolation	consumption
MaliMLIWestern Africa	89.50	extrapolation	consumption
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	88.36	extrapolation	consumption
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	87.78	extrapolation	consumption
GuineaGINWestern Africa	86.25	extrapolation	consumption
BurundiBDIEastern Africa	85.60	extrapolation	consumption
NigerNERWestern Africa	85.49	extrapolation	consumption
ChinaCHNEastern Asia	83.80	extrapolation	consumption
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	81.95	extrapolation	consumption
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	81.81	interpolation	consumption
RwandaRWAEastern Africa	81.49	extrapolation	consumption
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	80.65	extrapolation	consumption
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	79.89	interpolation	consumption
NepalNPLSouthern Asia	77.83	extrapolation	income
GhanaGHAWestern Africa	77.76	interpolation	consumption
BeninBENWestern Africa	77.66	extrapolation	consumption
GambiaGMBWestern Africa	76.63	extrapolation	consumption
SenegalSENWestern Africa	76.40	extrapolation	consumption
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	75.88	interpolation	consumption
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa	73.90	extrapolation	consumption
UgandaUGAEastern Africa	72.77	survey	consumption
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia	71.72	extrapolation	consumption
MalawiMWIEastern Africa	71.18	extrapolation	consumption

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 15.98. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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