Poverty gap at $3.20 a day (2011 PPP) is the mean shortfall in income or consumption from the poverty line $3.20 a day (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall), expressed as a percentage of the poverty line. This measure reflects the depth of poverty as well as its incidence.
| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armenia | 4.3 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 1.9 | ||
| Australia | 0.4 | 0.4 | |||||||||||
| Azerbaijan | 0.0 | ||||||||||||
| Bangladesh | 27.4 | 22.4 | 18.7 | 15.3 | |||||||||
| Bhutan | 3.4 | 2.6 | |||||||||||
| China | 47.1 | 15.5 | 9.7 | 7.4 | 6.2 | 2.8 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 1.0 | ||||
| Fiji | 1.3 | ||||||||||||
| Georgia | 17.0 | 10.0 | 10.7 | 10.1 | 8.2 | 6.3 | 5.1 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.0 | |
| India | 20.6 | ||||||||||||
| Indonesia | 39.4 | 28.7 | 17.8 | 13.6 | 12.2 | 11.2 | 9.9 | 8.9 | 7.8 | 7.2 | 6.1 | 5.1 | 4.5 |
| Japan | 0.1 | 0.4 | |||||||||||
| Kazakhstan | 6.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |||
| Korea, Rep. | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||||||||
| Kyrgyz Republic | 28.9 | 13.1 | 4.5 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 2.4 | 3.5 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 1.6 | |
| Lao PDR | 14.3 | 10.8 | |||||||||||
| Malaysia | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Maldives | 0.0 | ||||||||||||
| Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | 7.6 | 14.2 | |||||||||||
| Mongolia | 1.8 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.9 | |||||||
| Myanmar | 6.1 | 2.9 | |||||||||||
| Nepal | 15.8 | ||||||||||||
| Pakistan | 44.1 | 18.8 | 12.0 | 11.5 | 9.6 | 7.8 | 7.9 | ||||||
| Philippines | 12.4 | 10.2 | 7.0 | 3.9 | |||||||||
| Samoa | 2.0 | ||||||||||||
| Solomon Islands | 36.6 | 21.0 | |||||||||||
| Sri Lanka | 11.7 | 3.4 | 2.1 | ||||||||||
| Tajikistan | 4.5 | ||||||||||||
| Thailand | 10.0 | 4.0 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
| Timor-Leste | 21.2 | ||||||||||||
| Tonga | 2.4 | 1.5 | |||||||||||
| Tuvalu | 4.3 | ||||||||||||
| Uzbekistan | 44.6 | ||||||||||||
| Vanuatu | 12.7 | ||||||||||||
| Vietnam | 4.6 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 1.8 |