Societal Poverty Rate, 2010 compilation

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Societal Poverty Rate, 2010 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.

Positionderived	Country	Population below the societal poverty line (%)	Societal poverty line (2021 PPP $ a day)	Survey measures	Survey year
1	Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa · 2010 reading	75.71	3.000	consumption	2010
2	MalawiMWIEastern Africa	72.89	3.000	consumption	2010.23
3	ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2010 reading	71.37	3.000	consumption	2010
4	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	70.16	3.000	consumption	2010.83
5	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa · 2010 reading	65.29	3.000	consumption	2010
6	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	40.70	3.112	consumption	2010.5
7	GambiaGMBWestern Africa	39.80	3.278	consumption	2010.08
8	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa · 2010 reading	38.68	3.930	consumption	2010
9	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	38.54	3.056	consumption	2010.5
10	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia · 2010 reading	38.34	3.187	consumption	2010
11	ChinaCHNEastern Asia · 2010 reading	35.15	4.221	consumption	2010
12	VanuatuVUTMelanesia · 2010 reading	34.93	3.579	consumption	2010
13	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia · 2010 reading	34.83	3.821	consumption	2010
14	HondurasHNDCentral America · 2010 reading	34.63	4.886	income	2010
15	NepalNPLSouthern Asia	33.73	3.565	consumption	2010.17
16	BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia · 2010 reading	33.32	3.337	consumption	2010
17	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	33.17	3.236	consumption	2010.5
18	ColombiaCOLSouth America · 2010 reading	32.03	5.454	income	2010
19	São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa · 2010 reading	30.85	3.690	consumption	2010
20	PeruPERSouth America · 2010 reading	29.98	5.846	income	2010
21	El SalvadorSLVCentral America · 2010 reading	29.96	5.087	income	2010
22	ParaguayPRYSouth America · 2010 reading	29.10	6.440	income	2010
23	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean · 2010 reading	28.94	6.314	income	2010
24	North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe · 2010 reading	28.81	6.392	income	2010
25	EcuadorECUSouth America · 2010 reading	28.54	6.416	income	2010

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 19.73. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Societal poverty line (2021 PPP $ a day)

  HighestLuxembourg37.785

  Lowest5 share it

  Middle country: 7.874

• +25 / −21countries joined / left
• 61values changed, of 62 in both
• 25 · 36rose · fell
• 1unchanged

+ Australia+ Bangladesh+ China+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Gambia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Jordan+ South Korea+ Madagascar+ Mexico+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Nigeria+ Nepal+ Pakistan+ Rwanda+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Tunisia+ Tuvalu+ Taiwan+ Vietnam+ Vanuatu+ South Africa+ Zambia− Burkina Faso− Bolivia− Brazil− Botswana− Chile− India− Iran− Sri Lanka− Maldives− Mali− Namibia− Nicaragua− Philippines− Papua New Guinea− Sudan− South Sudan− Eswatini− Syria− Tajikistan− Tonga− Uganda

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.

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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.

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