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Poverty gap at $3.00 a day

Poverty gap at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) is the mean shortfall in income or consumption from the poverty line $3.00 a day (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall), expressed as a percentage of the poverty line.

Latest, 20233.4%Annual release · Not updated
vs 2014+1.1 pp2.3%
High since 198622.7%1986 · World Bank
Low since 19862.3%2014 · World Bank

Over time

1986 - 2023

Recent years

  1. 20233.4%+1.1 pp (worse)
  2. 20142.3%−1.2 pp (better)
  3. 20063.5%+0.4 pp (worse)
  4. 20003.1%−1.0 pp (better)
  5. 19984.1%−12.9 pp (better)
  6. 198917.0%−5.7 pp (better)
  7. 198622.7%