Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $1.90 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| China | 66.3 | 18.5 | 11.2 | 7.9 | 6.5 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.5 | ||||
| Indonesia | 54.9 | 34.9 | 18.0 | 13.3 | 10.9 | 9.5 | 7.3 | 6.2 | 5.8 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 2.7 |
| Japan | 0.0 | 0.7 | |||||||||||
| Korea, Rep. | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||||||||
| Lao PDR | 14.5 | 10.0 | |||||||||||
| Malaysia | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Myanmar | 4.8 | 1.4 | |||||||||||
| Philippines | 13.7 | 10.4 | 6.1 | 2.7 | |||||||||
| Thailand | 9.2 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
| Vietnam | 4.0 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 1.8 |