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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1996

1996, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1996 covers 170 countries. Equatorial Guinea is highest, at 96.47; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00. The middle country reads 16.21. Against 1995, 165 values changed (58 up, 107 down), the same countries are covered.

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Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates · Data for 1996

HighestEquatorial Guinea

96.47

Lowest2 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, 1996, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 170 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1996: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa96.47extrapolationconsumption
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa92.10extrapolationconsumption
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa91.28extrapolationconsumption
NigerNERWestern Africa88.70interpolationconsumption
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia88.58extrapolationconsumption
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa88.09extrapolationconsumption
BurundiBDIEastern Africa87.61interpolationconsumption
MaliMLIWestern Africa87.26interpolationconsumption
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa86.62interpolationconsumption
RwandaRWAEastern Africa85.38extrapolationconsumption
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia82.64extrapolationconsumption
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa81.62interpolationconsumption
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa81.44interpolationconsumption
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia81.41extrapolationconsumption
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa81.16interpolationconsumption
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa80.82interpolationconsumption
GambiaGMBWestern Africa78.57extrapolationconsumption
UgandaUGAEastern Africa78.34interpolationconsumption
BeninBENWestern Africa74.86extrapolationconsumption
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa74.53extrapolationconsumption
HaitiHTICaribbean74.52extrapolationincome
ChadTCDMiddle Africa73.33extrapolationconsumption
SenegalSENWestern Africa71.41interpolationconsumption
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa71.24interpolationconsumption
GhanaGHAWestern Africa70.41interpolationconsumption

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Equatorial Guinea96.47
  2. DR Congo92.10
  3. Liberia91.28
  4. Niger88.70
  5. Myanmar88.58

Lowest

  1. Qatarshared0.00
  2. United Arab Emiratesshared0.00
  3. Luxembourgshared0.01
  4. Finlandshared0.01
  5. Icelandshared0.04

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 16.21. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 165values changed, of 170 in both
  • 58 · 107rose · fell
  • 5unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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 1996.

  • 164 distinct values among 170

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 2 decimals. 2 countries share 7.96. 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 170 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

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 (1996). Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-headcount-lineup/1996

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07Questions

Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1996: 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, 1996?

Equatorial Guinea, at 96.47, of the 170 countries in the file.

What year does Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1996 cover?

170.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up Estimates, 1996?

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, 1996 the newest?

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

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