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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2004; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation covers 75 countries. DR Congo is highest, at 48.7200; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 0.4100. Against the 2003 compilation, 52 values changed (22 up, 30 down), 22 countries joined, 16 left.

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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2004

HighestDR Congo

48.7200

Lowest2 countries share it

0.0000

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 Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 75 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa48.7200consumption2004.89
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa24.0800consumption2004.67
MalawiMWIEastern Africa17.3000consumption2004.23
HondurasHNDCentral America · 2004 reading9.1800income2004
VenezuelaVENSouth America · 2004 reading6.7900income2004
EcuadorECUSouth America · 2004 reading4.5600income2004
PeruPERSouth America · 2004 reading4.4600income2004
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2004 reading4.4300consumption2004
El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2004 reading4.2800income2004
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2004 reading4.2800consumption2004
IndiaINDSouthern Asia3.6400consumption2004.5
PanamaPANCentral America · 2004 reading3.6200income2004
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa3.5400consumption2004.5
BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2004 reading3.3800income2004
ComorosCOMEastern Africa · 2004 reading3.3600consumption2004
ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2004 reading3.3300income2004
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia3.3300consumption2004.5
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa3.2800consumption2004.55
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia · 2004 reading3.2700consumption2004
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2004 reading3.2100consumption2004
BrazilBRASouth America · 2004 reading3.1300income2004
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia · 2004 reading3.0900consumption2004
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2004 reading2.1800income2004
MexicoMEXCentral America · 2004 reading1.9700income2004
ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2004 reading1.5400income2004

02In Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. DR Congo48.7200
  2. Zambia24.0800
  3. Malawi17.3000
  4. Honduras9.1800
  5. Venezuela6.7900

Lowest

  1. Luxembourgshared0.0000
  2. Croatiashared0.0000
  3. Czechia0.0002
  4. Azerbaijan0.0005
  5. Sloveniashared0.0100

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.4100. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032003 → 2004

Since the 2003 compilation

What changed between the 2003 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −16countries joined / left
  • 52values changed, of 53 in both
  • 22 · 30rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Bolivia+ Switzerland+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Cyprus+ Czechia+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Croatia+ India+ Jamaica+ Mexico+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ Netherlands+ Pakistan+ Palestine+ Slovakia+ Thailand+ Vietnam+ Zambia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bulgaria− Bhutan− Chile− Gambia− Malaysia− Namibia− Nigeria− Nepal− Philippines− Sierra Leone− Syria− Chad− Uzbekistan− Kosovo

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. 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
  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2004, from 2004 to 2004.

  • 59 distinct values among 75

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 8 decimals. 4 countries share 0.0200. 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 75 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 (2004). Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-severity/2004

07Questions

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty severity ($3.00 a day) in Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation?

DR Congo, at 48.7200, of the 75 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation cover?

75.

Where can I download Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2004 compilation the newest?

No. The newest held here is Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation.

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