Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.
| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armenia | 61.3 | 55.0 | 51.3 | 48.3 | 46.1 | 44.9 | 39.8 | 37.5 | 41.5 | 42.5 | 44.0 | ||
| Australia | 0.7 | 0.7 | |||||||||||
| Azerbaijan | 7.0 | ||||||||||||
| Bangladesh | 91.5 | 89.2 | 87.6 | 84.2 | |||||||||
| Bhutan | 44.3 | 38.9 | |||||||||||
| China | 98.3 | 70.5 | 53.5 | 49.2 | 44.4 | 36.4 | 31.5 | 27.2 | 24.0 | ||||
| Fiji | 35.8 | ||||||||||||
| Georgia | 73.5 | 61.3 | 60.8 | 59.0 | 54.9 | 49.5 | 45.7 | 44.8 | 43.3 | 43.0 | 42.5 | 42.0 | |
| India | 87.4 | ||||||||||||
| Indonesia | 96.3 | 95.1 | 85.9 | 75.5 | 72.2 | 71.4 | 68.7 | 66.6 | 64.3 | 59.7 | 55.8 | 53.2 | 52.2 |
| Japan | 0.5 | 1.2 | |||||||||||
| Kazakhstan | 49.1 | 14.7 | 7.0 | 6.9 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 5.9 | 9.6 | 6.5 | 4.6 | |||
| Korea, Rep. | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.7 | |||||||||
| Kyrgyz Republic | 92.2 | 79.9 | 60.8 | 60.2 | 63.5 | 64.3 | 60.7 | 63.9 | 61.4 | 60.5 | 54.8 | 52.6 | |
| Lao PDR | 78.7 | 70.4 | |||||||||||
| Malaysia | 8.6 | 4.0 | 2.9 | ||||||||||
| Maldives | 3.6 | ||||||||||||
| Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | 51.6 | 69.1 | |||||||||||
| Mongolia | 37.4 | 31.9 | 23.5 | 18.2 | 29.9 | 27.1 | |||||||
| Myanmar | 62.1 | 54.3 | |||||||||||
| Nepal | 83.0 | ||||||||||||
| Pakistan | 97.0 | 88.5 | 85.1 | 83.6 | 79.6 | 75.9 | 76.2 | ||||||
| Philippines | 64.0 | 59.9 | 54.6 | 46.9 | |||||||||
| Samoa | 33.9 | ||||||||||||
| Solomon Islands | 88.5 | 84.5 | |||||||||||
| Sri Lanka | 81.4 | 51.7 | 42.0 | ||||||||||
| Tajikistan | 50.5 | ||||||||||||
| Thailand | 64.6 | 48.6 | 17.5 | 13.4 | 13.5 | 11.3 | 10.4 | 7.0 | 8.2 | 7.6 | 8.4 | 6.2 | |
| Timor-Leste | 91.8 | ||||||||||||
| Tonga | 27.8 | 27.5 | |||||||||||
| Tuvalu | 46.7 | ||||||||||||
| Uzbekistan | 96.4 | ||||||||||||
| Vanuatu | 72.4 | ||||||||||||
| Vietnam | 46.8 | 40.8 | 35.0 | 27.2 | 22.4 |