Countries with the highest poverty gaps worldwide at 3.65 U.S. dollars a day 2022
All the 20 countries with the highest poverty gaps worldwide at 3.65 U.S. dollars a day in 2017 Purchasing Power Parities were located in Africa. Democratic Republic of Congo had the most severe poverty levels at 59 percent. Moreover, most of the countries with the highest poverty gaps are also the countries with the highest poverty rates in the world. Whereas the poverty rate only measures the share of the population living below the poverty line, the poverty gap measures the severity of the poverty.
