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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2019 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2019; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2019 compilation covers 79 countries. Mozambique is highest, at 29.830; 9 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 0.200. Against the 2018 compilation, 57 values changed (22 up, 35 down), 12 countries joined, 27 left.

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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2019

HighestMozambique

29.830

Lowest9 countries share it

0.000

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, 2019 compilation, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 79 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2019 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa29.830consumption2019.92
MalawiMWIEastern Africa18.450consumption2019.31
UgandaUGAEastern Africa11.760consumption2019.64
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa · 2019 reading9.410consumption2019
HondurasHNDCentral America · 2019 reading3.520income2019
KosovoXKXSouthern Europe · 2019 reading3.290income2019
ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2019 reading2.530income2019
VanuatuVUTMelanesia1.840consumption2019.21
BrazilBRASouth America · 2019 reading1.560income2019
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2019 reading1.000consumption2019
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2019 reading1.000income2019
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa0.990consumption2019.6
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2019 reading0.800income2019
EcuadorECUSouth America · 2019 reading0.720income2019
ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2019 reading0.690income2019
United StatesUSANorthern America · 2019 reading0.650income2019
PeruPERSouth America · 2019 reading0.630income2019
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2019 reading0.570consumption2019
RomaniaROUEastern Europe · 2019 reading0.570income2019
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe · 2019 reading0.470income2019
SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2019 reading0.460income2019
BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2019 reading0.450income2019
PanamaPANCentral America · 2019 reading0.420income2019
AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2019 reading0.390income2019
JapanJPNEastern Asia · 2019 reading0.390income2019

02In Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2019 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Mozambique29.830
  2. Malawi18.450
  3. Uganda11.760
  4. Zimbabwe9.410
  5. Honduras3.520

Lowest

  1. Ukraineshared0.000
  2. Sloveniashared0.000
  3. Maldivesshared0.000
  4. Kazakhstanshared0.000
  5. Czechiashared0.000

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.200. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since the 2018 compilation

What changed between the 2018 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −27countries joined / left
  • 57values changed, of 67 in both
  • 22 · 35rose · fell
  • 10unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Kiribati+ Sri Lanka+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Mozambique+ Mauritania+ Malawi+ Uganda+ Vanuatu+ Zimbabwe− Angola− United Arab Emirates− Australia− Benin− Burkina Faso− Belize− Côte d’Ivoire− Guinea− Guinea-Bissau− Grenada− Jamaica− Laos− Mexico− Mali− Mongolia− Malaysia− Niger− Nigeria− Pakistan− Philippines− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Seychelles− Chad− Togo− Tanzania− Vietnam

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 2019, from 2019 to 2019.

  • 49 distinct values among 79

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 8 decimals. 9 countries share 0.000. 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 79 countries has every column.

05The files

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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 (2019). Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2019 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-severity/2019

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07Questions

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2019 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, 2019 compilation?

Mozambique, at 29.830, of the 79 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2019 compilation cover?

79.

Where can I download Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2019 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, 2019 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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