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Poverty gap at $4.20 a day

Poverty gap at $4.20 a day (2021 PPP) is the mean shortfall in income or consumption from the poverty line $4.20 a day (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall), expressed as a percentage of the poverty line.

Latest, 20236.3%Annual release · Not updated
vs 2014+1.1 pp5.2%
High since 198631.7%1986 · World Bank
Low since 19865.2%2014 · World Bank

Over time

1986 - 2023

Recent years

  1. 20236.3%+1.1 pp (worse)
  2. 20145.2%−1.4 pp (better)
  3. 20066.6%+0.9 pp (worse)
  4. 20005.7%−2.3 pp (better)
  5. 19988.0%−15.8 pp (better)
  6. 198923.8%−7.9 pp (better)
  7. 198631.7%