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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2009 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2009; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2009 compilation covers 83 countries. Eswatini is highest, at 15.5000; 4 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 0.4400. Against the 2008 compilation, 57 values changed (31 up, 26 down), 21 countries joined, 17 left.

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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2009

HighestEswatini

15.5000

Lowest4 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, 2009 compilation, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 83 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2009 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa15.5000consumption2009.25
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa · 2009 reading14.3300consumption2009
UgandaUGAEastern Africa13.2100consumption2009.4
Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia12.2700consumption2009.67
South SudanSSDEastern Africa · 2009 reading11.9000consumption2009
MaliMLIWestern Africa11.1800consumption2009.89
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa6.4600consumption2009.54
HondurasHNDCentral America · 2009 reading3.4300income2009
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2009 reading3.4100consumption2009
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2009 reading3.3100income2009
BotswanaBWASouthern Africa3.2900consumption2009.25
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2009 reading3.1100consumption2009
ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2009 reading3.0600income2009
BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2009 reading2.8900income2009
IndiaINDSouthern Asia2.2400consumption2009.5
PeruPERSouth America · 2009 reading2.2200income2009
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2009 reading2.1400income2009
BrazilBRASouth America · 2009 reading1.8200income2009
EcuadorECUSouth America · 2009 reading1.8100income2009
NicaraguaNICCentral America · 2009 reading1.7300income2009
El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2009 reading1.6000income2009
SudanSDNNorthern Africa · 2009 reading1.4300consumption2009
ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2009 reading1.4200income2009
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2009 reading1.2500consumption2009
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia1.1500consumption2009.5

02In Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2009 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Eswatini15.5000
  2. Burkina Faso14.3300
  3. Uganda13.2100
  4. Papua New Guinea12.2700
  5. South Sudan11.9000

Lowest

  1. Syriashared0.0000
  2. Montenegroshared0.0000
  3. Germanyshared0.0000
  4. Czechiashared0.0000
  5. Slovenia0.0003

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.4400. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since the 2008 compilation

What changed between the 2008 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +21 / −17countries joined / left
  • 57values changed, of 62 in both
  • 31 · 26rose · fell
  • 5unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burkina Faso+ Botswana+ Chile+ India+ Iran+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Mali+ Namibia+ Nicaragua+ Philippines+ Papua New Guinea+ Palestine+ Sudan+ South Sudan+ Eswatini+ Syria+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Uganda+ Kosovo− Angola− Albania− Australia− Central African Republic− China− Côte d’Ivoire− Egypt− Fiji− Jordan− South Korea− Mexico− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malaysia− Vietnam− Samoa− South Africa

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 2009, from 2009 to 2009.

  • 60 distinct values among 83

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 8 decimals. 6 countries share 0.0300. 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 83 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 (2009). Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2009 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-severity/2009

07Questions

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2009 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, 2009 compilation?

Eswatini, at 15.5000, of the 83 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2009 compilation cover?

83.

Where can I download Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2009 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, 2009 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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