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Economy Statistics > Poverty gap at $1 a day > PPP > % (most recent) by country
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Rank
Countries
Amount
(top to bottom)
Date
#1
Sierra Leone
39.5 %
1989 ...
#2
Central African Republic
38.1 %
1993 ...
#3
Nigeria
34.51 %
2003 ...
#4
Niger
34 %
1995 ...
#5
Zambia
32.64 %
2004 ...
#6
Gambia, The
28.8 %
1998 ...
#7
Madagascar
27.9 %
2001 ...
#8
Haiti
26.59 %
2001 ...
#9
Rwanda
25.57 %
2000 ...
#10
Zimbabwe
24.17 %
1996 ...
#11
Burundi
22.7 %
1998 ...
#12
Tanzania
20.71 %
2000 ...
#13
Lesotho
19 %
1995 ...
#14
Ghana
17.3 %
1998 ...
#15
Nicaragua
16.74 %
2001 ...
#16
Namibia
13.97 %
1993 ...
#17
Bolivia
13.55 %
2002 ...
#18
Mali
12.23 %
2001 ...
#19
Mozambique
11.61 %
2002 ...
#20
Bangladesh
10.3 %
2000 ...
#21
Botswana
9.94 %
1993 ...
#22
Cambodia
9.68 %
1997 ...
#23
El Salvador
9.35 %
2002 ...
#24
Venezuela
8.86 %
2003 ...
#25
Benin
8.23 %
2003 ...
#26
India
7.88 %
2004 ...
#27
Mauritania
7.56 %
2000 ...
#28
Burkina Faso
7.26 %
2003 ...
#29
Ecuador
7.13 %
1998 ...
#30
Laos
6.07 %
2002 ...
#31
Kenya
5.92 %
1997 ...
#32
Paraguay
5.61 %
2003 ...
#33
Guatemala
5.48 %
2002 ...
#34
Nepal
5.43 %
2004 ...
#35
Turkmenistan
5.3 %
1993 ...
#36
Ethiopia
4.8 %
2000 ...
#37
Malawi
4.71 %
2004 ...
#38
Yemen
4.5 %
1998 ...
#39
Honduras
4.39 %
2003 ...
#40
Côte d'Ivoire
4.14 %
2002 ...
#41
Cameroon
4.09 %
2001 ...
#42
Senegal
3.62 %
2001 ...
#43
Trinidad and Tobago
3.5 %
1992 ...
#44
Brazil
3.37 %
2004 ...
#45
Colombia
3.07 %
2003 ...
#46
Pakistan
3.06 %
2002 ...
#47
Philippines
2.9 %
2003 ...
#48
Peru
2.87 %
2003 ...
#49
Swaziland
2.46 %
1995 ...
#50
Mongolia
2.23 %
2002 ...
#51
Georgia
2.14 %
2003 ...
#52
China
2.1 %
2004 ...
#53
Argentina
2.05 %
2004 ...
#54
Panama
2.05 %
2003 ...
#55
South Africa
1.74 %
2000 ...
#56
Costa Rica
1.59 %
2003 ...
#57
Mexico
1.42 %
2004 ...
#58
Tajikistan
1.33 %
2003 ...
#59
Indonesia
0.91 %
2002 ...
#60
Sri Lanka
0.84 %
2002 ...
#61
Turkey
0.79 %
2003 ...
#62
Azerbaijan
0.63 %
2001 ...
#63
Dominican Republic
0.52 %
2004 ...
#64
Romania
0.51 %
2003 ...
#65
Tunisia
0.5 %
2000 ...
#66
Lithuania
0.5 %
2003 ...
#67
Jamaica
0.5 %
2004 ...
#68
Macedonia, Republic of
0.5 %
2003 ...
#69
Iran
0.5 %
1998 ...
#70
Armenia
0.5 %
2003 ...
#71
Belarus
0.5 %
2002 ...
#72
Bulgaria
0.5 %
2003 ...
#73
Poland
0.5 %
2002 ...
#74
Jordan
0.5 %
2003 ...
#75
Albania
0.5 %
2004 ...
#76
Ukraine
0.5 %
2003 ...
#77
Hungary
0.5 %
2002 ...
#78
Kyrgyzstan
0.5 %
2003 ...
#79
Russia
0.5 %
2002 ...
#80
Czech Republic
0.5 %
1996 ...
#81
Thailand
0.5 %
2002 ...
#82
Slovakia
0.5 %
1996 ...
#83
Egypt
0.5 %
2000 ...
#84
Morocco
0.5 %
1999 ...
#85
Chile
0.5 %
2003 ...
#86
Guyana
0.5 %
1999 ...
#87
Moldova
0.5 %
2003 ...
#88
Algeria
0.5 %
1995 ...
#89
Kazakhstan
0.5 %
2003 ...
#90
Croatia
0.5 %
2001 ...
#91
Uruguay
0.5 %
2003 ...
#92
Malaysia
0.5 %
1997 ...
#93
Estonia
0.5 %
2003 ...
#94
Korea, South
0.5 %
1998 ...
#95
Uzbekistan
0.5 %
2003 ...
#96
Slovenia
0.5 %
1998 ...
#97
Latvia
0.5 %
2003 ...
Weighted average:
6.9 %
DEFINITION: Poverty gap is the mean shortfall from the poverty line (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall), expressed as a percentage of the poverty line. This measure reflects the depth of poverty as well as its incidence. Data showing as 0.5 signifies a poverty gap of less than 0.5 percent.
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