These levels of deprivation have little to do with the average income of the country. Sweden has the least poverty 7% through ranked only thirteenth in average income. The United states, with the highest average income of the countries ranked, has thr highest population share experiencing human poverty.And countries with similar per capita incomes have very different levels of human poverty. The Netherlands and the United Kingdom, for example,have HPI-2 values of 8% and 15% despite similar income levels.