Poverty gap at national poverty line (%) - Millennium Development Goals Indicators



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Target 1.A: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day
Poverty gap at national poverty line (%) - Millennium Development Goals Indicators (Most Recent Data)

Rank

Country

Value

1Zambia (2004)36
2Colombia (1999)34
3Swaziland (2001)32.91
4Democratic Republic of the Congo (2005)32.2
5Bolivia (2002)31.2
6Sierra Leone (2004)29
7Madagascar (2005)26.8
8Gambia (2003)25.9
9Guinea-Bissau (2000)25.7
10Venezuela (1999)24
11Guatemala (2000)22.6
12Honduras (2004)22.3
13Mozambique (2003)20.4
14Belarus (2002)20
15Brazil (2003)19.6
16Ecuador (1998)18
17Peru (2004)18
18Nicaragua (2001)17
19Dominican Republic (2004)16.8
20Kenya (2006)16.6
21El Salvador (2002)16.5
22Moldova (2002)16.5
23Azerbaijan (2001)15.5
24Burkina Faso (2003)15.3
25Armenia (2001)15.1
26Kosovo (2006)13.3
27Yemen (1998)13.2
28Tajikistan (2003)12.4
29Ethiopia (2000)12
30Timor-Leste (2001)11.9
31Mongolia (2002)11
32Kyrgyzstan (2005)10
33Ghana (2006)9.6
34Bangladesh (2005)9
35Uganda (2006)8.7
36Costa Rica (2004)8.6
37Malawi (2005)8
38Laos (2003)8
39Romania (2002)7.59
40Nepal (2004)7.5
41Pakistan (1999)7
42Burma (2005)7
43Vietnam (2002)6.9
44Cambodia (2004)6.7
45Macedonia (2003)6.7
46Mexico (2002)6.34
47South Africa (2008)6
48Chile (1998)5.7
49Slovakia (2004)5.5
50Sri Lanka (2002)5.1
51Russia (2002)5.1
52Bosnia and Herzegovina (2002)4.6
53Morocco (1999)4.4
54Bulgaria (2001)4.2
55Albania (2005)4
56Jordan (2002)3.3
57Kazakhstan (2002)3.1
58Thailand (1998)3
59Egypt (2000)2.97
60Indonesia (2004)2.9
61Latvia (2004)1.2
62Turkey (2002)0.26
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