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DEFINITION:
Poverty gap at national poverty line is the mean shortfall from the poverty line (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall) as a percentage of.
CONTENTS
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| # | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zambia | 36% | 2004 | ||
| 2 | Colombia | 34% | 1999 | ||
| 3 | Swaziland | 32.91% | 2001 | ||
| 4 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 32.2% | 2005 | ||
| 5 | Bolivia | 31.2% | 2002 | ||
| 6 | Sierra Leone | 29% | 2004 | ||
| 7 | Chad | 27.5% | 1996 | ||
| 8 | Madagascar | 26.8% | 2005 | ||
| 9 | The Gambia | 25.9% | 2003 | ||
| 10 | Guinea-Bissau | 25.7% | 2000 | ||
| 11 | Venezuela | 24% | 1999 | ||
| 12 | Guatemala | 22.6% | 2000 | ||
| 13 | Honduras | 22.3% | 2004 | ||
| 14 | Mozambique | 20.4% | 2003 | ||
| 15 | Belarus | 20% | 2002 | ||
| 16 | Brazil | 19.6% | 2003 | ||
| =17 | Peru | 18% | 2004 | ||
| =17 | Ecuador | 18% | 1998 | ||
| 19 | Nicaragua | 17% | 2001 | ||
| 20 | Dominican Republic | 16.8% | 2004 | ||
| 21 | Kenya | 16.6% | 2006 | ||
| =22 | El Salvador | 16.5% | 2002 | ||
| =22 | Moldova | 16.5% | 2002 | ||
| 24 | Panama | 16.4% | 1997 | ||
| 25 | Azerbaijan | 15.5% | 2001 | ||
| 26 | Burkina Faso | 15.3% | 2003 | ||
| 27 | Senegal | 13.9% | 1992 | ||
| =28 | Tajikistan | 12.4% | 2003 | ||
| =28 | Papua New Guinea | 12.4% | 1996 | ||
| 30 | Ethiopia | 12% | 2000 | ||
| 31 | East Timor | 11.9% | 2001 | ||
| 32 | Mongolia | 11% | 2002 | ||
| =33 | Kyrgyzstan | 10% | 2005 | ||
| =33 | Togo | 10% | 1989 | ||
| 35 | Ghana | 9.6% | 2006 | ||
| 36 | Bangladesh | 9% | 2005 | ||
| 37 | Uganda | 8.7% | 2006 | ||
| 38 | Costa Rica | 8.6% | 2004 | ||
| =39 | Malawi | 8% | 2005 | ||
| =39 | Laos | 8% | 2003 | ||
| 41 | Romania | 7.59% | 2002 | ||
| 42 | Nepal | 7.5% | 2004 | ||
| 43 | Trinidad and Tobago | 7.3% | 1992 | ||
| 44 | Cambodia | 7.2% | 2007 | ||
| =45 | Burma | 7% | 2005 | ||
| =45 | Pakistan | 7% | 1999 | ||
| 47 | Vietnam | 6.9% | 2002 | ||
| 48 | Philippines | 6.4% | 1997 | ||
| 49 | Mexico | 6.34% | 2002 | ||
| =50 | South Africa | 6% | 2008 | ||
| =50 | Paraguay | 6% | 1990 | ||
| 52 | Chile | 5.7% | 1998 | ||
| 53 | Slovakia | 5.5% | 2004 | ||
| =54 | Sri Lanka | 5.1% | 2002 | ||
| =54 | Russia | 5.1% | 2002 | ||
| 56 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 4.6% | 2002 | ||
| 57 | Morocco | 4.4% | 1999 | ||
| 58 | Bulgaria | 4.2% | 2001 | ||
| 59 | Albania | 4% | 2005 | ||
| 60 | Jordan | 3.3% | 2002 | ||
| 61 | Algeria | 3.2% | 1995 | ||
| 62 | Estonia | 3.13% | 1995 | ||
| 63 | Kazakhstan | 3.1% | 2002 | ||
| 64 | Thailand | 3% | 1998 | ||
| 65 | Indonesia | 2.9% | 2004 | ||
| 66 | Tunisia | 1.74% | 1990 | ||
| 67 | Latvia | 1.2% | 2004 | ||
| 68 | Turkey | 0.26% | 2002 |
