Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1990

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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1990: 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	99.69	extrapolation	consumption
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia	93.17	extrapolation	consumption
MaliMLIWestern Africa	90.35	extrapolation	consumption
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	89.73	extrapolation	consumption
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	88.44	extrapolation	consumption
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	88.32	extrapolation	consumption
NigerNERWestern Africa	86.52	extrapolation	consumption
GuineaGINWestern Africa	86.10	extrapolation	consumption
BurundiBDIEastern Africa	85.26	extrapolation	consumption
ChinaCHNEastern Asia	83.11	survey	consumption
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	82.82	extrapolation	consumption
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	82.72	extrapolation	consumption
RwandaRWAEastern Africa	82.55	extrapolation	consumption
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	81.90	extrapolation	consumption
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	79.65	interpolation	consumption
GhanaGHAWestern Africa	79.04	interpolation	consumption
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	78.59	survey	consumption
SenegalSENWestern Africa	77.20	extrapolation	consumption
GambiaGMBWestern Africa	76.88	extrapolation	consumption
BeninBENWestern Africa	76.32	extrapolation	consumption
NepalNPLSouthern Asia	76.24	extrapolation	consumption
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	76.02	interpolation	consumption
UgandaUGAEastern Africa	74.78	interpolation	consumption
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa	72.88	extrapolation	consumption
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	72.61	extrapolation	consumption

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 16.10. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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