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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2023; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation covers 60 countries. Uganda is highest, at 9.7400; 3 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 0.1850. Against the 2022 compilation, 46 values changed (18 up, 28 down), 9 countries joined, 22 left.

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Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day · Latest available · compiled 2023

HighestUganda

9.7400

Lowest3 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, 2023 compilation, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 60 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
UgandaUGAEastern Africa9.7400consumption2023.17
HondurasHNDCentral America · 2023 reading3.9200income2023
RwandaRWAEastern Africa3.8100consumption2023.77
ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2023 reading2.0400income2023
GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2023 reading1.7200income2023
El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2023 reading0.9500income2023
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia · 2023 reading0.8400income2023
PeruPERSouth America · 2023 reading0.8100income2023
United StatesUSANorthern America · 2023 reading0.7900income2023
BrazilBRASouth America · 2023 reading0.7200income2023
EcuadorECUSouth America · 2023 reading0.6100income2023
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe · 2023 reading0.5700income2023
ItalyITASouthern Europe · 2023 reading0.5500income2023
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia · 2023 reading0.5500consumption2023
PanamaPANCentral America · 2023 reading0.5000income2023
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2023 reading0.4600consumption2023
SpainESPSouthern Europe · 2023 reading0.4500income2023
SwedenSWENorthern Europe · 2023 reading0.4500income2023
AustriaAUTWestern Europe · 2023 reading0.3200income2023
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe · 2023 reading0.3100income2023
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading0.3000consumption2023
BoliviaBOLSouth America · 2023 reading0.2900income2023
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia · 2023 reading0.2800income2023
ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2023 reading0.2600income2023
LatviaLVANorthern Europe · 2023 reading0.2500income2023

02In Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Uganda9.7400
  2. Honduras3.9200
  3. Rwanda3.8100
  4. Colombia2.0400
  5. Guatemala1.7200

Lowest

  1. Sloveniashared0.0000
  2. Moldovashared0.0000
  3. Czechiashared0.0000
  4. Thailand0.0001
  5. Cyprus0.0100

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.1850. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since the 2022 compilation

What changed between the 2022 compilation and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −22countries joined / left
  • 46values changed, of 51 in both
  • 18 · 28rose · fell
  • 5unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ Iraq+ Kiribati+ Panama+ Philippines+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ Uganda− Bangladesh− Bhutan− Canada− Chile− China− Germany− Equatorial Guinea− Israel− Kenya− Lebanon− Mexico− Mongolia− Mozambique− Nigeria− Nepal− Suriname− Syria− Chad− Vietnam− Kosovo− South Africa− Zambia

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 2023, from 2023 to 2023.

  • 42 distinct values among 60

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 9 decimals. 6 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 60 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 (2023). Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/poverty-severity/2023

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07Questions

Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2023 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, 2023 compilation?

Uganda, at 9.7400, of the 60 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2023 compilation cover?

60.

Where can I download Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, 2023 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, 2023 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-29, when it was read from the publisher.

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