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Poverty gap at $8.30 a day

Poverty gap at $8.30 a day (2021 PPP) is the mean shortfall in income or consumption from the poverty line $8.30 a day (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall), expressed as a percentage of the poverty line.

Latest, 202319.5%Annual release · Not updated
vs 2014+1.2 pp18.3%
High since 198652.5%1986 · World Bank
Low since 198617.1%2000 · World Bank

Over time

1986 - 2023

Recent years

  1. 202319.5%+1.2 pp (worse)
  2. 201418.3%+0.4 pp (worse)
  3. 200617.9%+0.8 pp (worse)
  4. 200017.1%−4.1 pp (better)
  5. 199821.2%−20.4 pp (better)
  6. 198941.6%−10.9 pp (better)
  7. 198652.5%