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Question: How many countries were sampled for the index in 2nd place in the LA ranking and 23rd in the world ranking?
Columns: ['Index (Year)', 'Author / Editor / Source', 'Year of publication', 'Countries sampled', 'World Ranking (1)', 'Ranking L.A. (2)']
Types: ['text', 'text', 'text', 'real', 'text', 'text']
Sample row: ['Human Poverty, HPI-1 (2005) (3)', 'United Nations (UNDP)', '2007–08', 108.0, '2nd', '1st']
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assistant: SELECT "Countries sampled" FROM "Table" WHERE "Ranking L.A. (2)" = '2nd' AND "World Ranking (1)" = '23rd';