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Economy Statistics > Poverty gap at $2 a day > PPP > % (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount  (top to bottom)    Date  
#1   Nigeria: 59.53 %   2003 ...
#2   Central African Republic: 58.44 %   1993 ...
#3   Zambia: 55.22 %   2004 ...
#4   Niger: 54.6 %   1995 ...
#5   Sierra Leone: 51.8 %   1989 ...
#6   Madagascar: 51.75 %   2001 ...
#7   Rwanda: 51.55 %   2000 ...
#8   Gambia, The: 51.1 %   1998 ...
#9   Tanzania: 49.33 %   2000 ...
#10   Burundi: 48.9 %   1998 ...
#11   Zimbabwe: 48.21 %   1996 ...
#12   Haiti: 47.35 %   2001 ...
#13   Nicaragua: 41.17 %   2001 ...
#14   Ghana: 40.8 %   1998 ...
#15   Bangladesh: 38.3 %   2000 ...
#16   India: 35.02 %   2004 ...
#17   Mozambique: 34.9 %   2002 ...
#18   Cambodia: 34.48 %   1997 ...
#19   Mali: 34.21 %   2001 ...
#20   Lesotho: 33.1 %   1995 ...
#21   Benin: 31.7 %   2003 ...
#22   Namibia: 30.37 %   1993 ...
#23   Burkina Faso: 30.35 %   2003 ...
#24   Laos: 30.2 %   2002 ...
#25   Ethiopia: 29.6 %   2000 ...
#26   Mauritania: 26.8 %   2000 ...
#27   Nepal: 26.79 %   2004 ...
#28   Botswana: 26.49 %   1993 ...
#29   Pakistan: 26.09 %   2002 ...
#30   Malawi: 24.29 %   2004 ...
#31   Kenya: 23.92 %   1997 ...
#32   Bolivia: 23.24 %   2002 ...
#33   Turkmenistan: 23.07 %   1993 ...
#34   Senegal: 20.85 %   2001 ...
#35   Cameroon: 19.35 %   2001 ...
#36   Venezuela: 19.19 %   2003 ...
#37   Côte d'Ivoire: 18.4 %   2002 ...
#38   El Salvador: 17.73 %   2002 ...
#39   Ecuador: 17.69 %   1998 ...
#40   Philippines: 16.32 %   2003 ...
#41   Indonesia: 15.71 %   2002 ...
#42   Honduras: 15.08 %   2003 ...
#43   Mongolia: 15.08 %   2002 ...
#44   Yemen: 14.98 %   1998 ...
#45   Trinidad and Tobago: 14.6 %   1992 ...
#46   Guatemala: 13.76 %   2002 ...
#47   Paraguay: 13.75 %   2003 ...
#48   Tajikistan: 13.01 %   2003 ...
#49   South Africa: 12.59 %   2000 ...
#50   China: 12.51 %   2004 ...
#51   Sri Lanka: 11.92 %   2002 ...
#52   Peru: 11.85 %   2003 ...
#53   Egypt: 11.33 %   2000 ...
#54   Azerbaijan: 9.11 %   2001 ...
#55   Swaziland: 8.91 %   1995 ...
#56   Georgia: 8.57 %   2003 ...
#57   Brazil: 8.52 %   2004 ...
#58   Colombia: 7.7 %   2003 ...
#59   Panama: 7.46 %   2003 ...
#60   Armenia: 7.08 %   2003 ...
#61   Argentina: 7.05 %   2004 ...
#62   Thailand: 6.21 %   2002 ...
#63   Turkey: 5.73 %   2003 ...
#64   Dominican Republic: 4.89 %   2004 ...
#65   Moldova: 4.71 %   2003 ...
#66   Kyrgyzstan: 4.39 %   2003 ...
#67   Mexico: 4.15 %   2004 ...
#68   Costa Rica: 4 %   2003 ...
#69   Algeria: 3.8 %   1995 ...
#70   Kazakhstan: 3.76 %   2003 ...
#71   Jamaica: 3.33 %   2004 ...
#72   Morocco: 3.1 %   1999 ...
#73   Russia: 3.09 %   2002 ...
#74   Romania: 2.98 %   2003 ...
#75   Malaysia: 2 %   1997 ...
#76   Estonia: 1.89 %   2003 ...
#77   Lithuania: 1.75 %   2003 ...
#78   Guyana: 1.7 %   1999 ...
#79   Albania: 1.62 %   2004 ...
#80   Uruguay: 1.55 %   2003 ...
#81   Bulgaria: 1.53 %   2003 ...
#82   Iran: 1.5 %   1998 ...
#83   Jordan: 1.46 %   2003 ...
#84   Chile: 1.35 %   2003 ...
#85   Tunisia: 1.33 %   2000 ...
#86   Latvia: 1.24 %   2003 ...
#87   Ukraine: 0.94 %   2003 ...
#88   Slovakia: 0.84 %   1996 ...
#89   Uzbekistan: 0.57 %   2003 ...
#90   Korea, South: 0.5 %   1998 ...
#91   Poland: 0.5 %   2002 ...
#92   Hungary: 0.5 %   2002 ...
#93   Slovenia: 0.5 %   1998 ...
#94   Czech Republic: 0.5 %   1996 ...
#95   Belarus: 0.5 %   2002 ...
#96   Croatia: 0.5 %   2001 ...
#97   Macedonia, Republic of: 0.5 %   2003 ...
Weighted average: 17.8 %   


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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