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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.
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# | COUNTRY | AMOUNT | DATE | GRAPH | HISTORY |
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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 |