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Have you ever been to a truly poor country? I am not going to try to define what is a "truly" poor one, but there are 26 countries with less than one thousand USD in gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. How many of them do you think are in Africa?
It goes without saying that most of the world's poorest countries are in Africa. But how bad is it?
Very bad.
23 of the 26 countries with a GDP per capita of less than 1,000 USD are in fact in Africa, according to the World Bank. It measures GDP in USD per capita divided by the population (midyear). The 2010-2014 figures show that the poorest country in the world is 385 times poorer than the richest.
26. Lesotho: 996 USD
25. Zimbabwe: 936 USD
24. Comoros: 861 USD
23. Haiti : 832 USD (third non-African country)
22. Benin: 825 USD
21. Sierra Leone: 788 USD
20. Mali: 766 USD
19. Burkina Faso: 720 USD
18. Nepal: 698 USD (second non-African country)
17. Uganda: 677 USD
16. Afghanistan: 666 USD (first non-African country)
15. Rwanda: 652 USD
14. Togo: 646 USD
13. Mozambique: 619 USD
12. Eritrea: 590 USD
11. Guinea-Bissau: 586 USD
10. Ethiopia: 568 USD
9. Guinea: 550 USD
8. Congo, Democratic Republic: 475 USD
7. Liberia: 461 USD
6. Madagascar: 449 USD
5. Niger: 441 USD
4. The Gambia: 423 USD
3. Central African Republic: 379 USD
2. Burundi: 295 USD
1. Malawi: 253 USD
And the other side of the list, where people make almost 400 times more? See the world's richest countries.
