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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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