Survey mean consumption or income per capita, bottom 40% of population (2011 PPP $ per day) - Country Ranking - Africa

Definition: Mean consumption or income per capita (2011 PPP $ per day) used in calculating the growth rate in the welfare aggregate of the bottom 40% of the population in the income distribution in a country.

Source: World Bank, Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP) circa 2011-2016 (http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/global-database-of-shared-prosperity).

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

Find indicator:
Rank Country Value Year
1 Seychelles 10.00 2018
2 Mauritius 6.40 2017
3 Tunisia 5.62 2015
4 Mauritania 2.86 2014
5 Egypt 2.76 2017
6 Ghana 2.42 2016
7 Namibia 2.36 2015
8 The Gambia 2.32 2015
9 Botswana 2.18 2015
10 South Africa 2.00 2014
11 Cameroon 1.64 2014
12 Ethiopia 1.51 2015
13 Eswatini 1.50 2016
14 Zimbabwe 1.48 2017
14 Côte d'Ivoire 1.48 2015
16 Guinea 1.40 2012
17 Burkina Faso 1.37 2014
18 Sierra Leone 1.35 2018
19 Senegal 1.28 2011
19 Uganda 1.28 2019
21 Niger 1.26 2014
22 Tanzania 1.18 2018
22 Mali 1.18 2009
24 Congo 1.13 2011
25 Rwanda 1.00 2016
26 Togo 0.96 2015
27 Benin 0.87 2015
28 Mozambique 0.77 2014
29 Malawi 0.76 2019
30 Zambia 0.64 2015
31 Madagascar 0.59 2012
32 Dem. Rep. Congo 0.58 2012

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Limitations and Exceptions: Because household surveys are infrequent in most countries and are not aligned across countries, comparisons across countries or over time should be made with a high degree of caution.

Unit of Measure: 2011 PPP $

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: The choice of consumption or income for a country is made according to which welfare aggregate is used to estimate extreme poverty in PovcalNet. The practice adopted by the World Bank for estimating global and regional poverty is, in principle, to use per