AfDB Topics Poverty Number of Poor

Number of people living on less than $3.20 a day at 2011 international prices. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. For more information and methodology, please see PovcalNet (http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/index.htm).

Number of poor at $3.2 a day based on purchasing-power-parity (million persons)

1990200020052010201120122013201420152016201720182019
Algeria1.4
Angola9.822.0
Benin7.38.1
Botswana0.8
Burkina Faso13.5
Burundi8.8
Cameroon10.7
Cape Verde0.1
Chad8.2
Comoros0.3
Congo, Dem. Rep.63.1
Congo, Rep.2.82.8
Cote d'Ivoire13.7
Djibouti0.30.40.4
Egypt, Arab Rep.22.719.616.416.828.4
Eswatini0.70.6
Ethiopia65.471.4
Gabon0.40.2
Gambia, The1.00.8
Ghana10.78.28.5
Guinea7.6
Guinea-Bissau1.3
Kenya25.532.6
Lesotho1.0
Liberia3.33.5
Madagascar16.319.320.5
Malawi12.915.3
Mauritania1.20.9
Mauritius0.00.0
Morocco4.97.82.5
Mozambique21.7
Namibia0.7
Niger12.414.314.8
Nigeria142.7
Rwanda7.27.78.69.19.6
Sao Tome and Principe0.10.10.1
Senegal7.78.9
Seychelles0.00.0
Sierra Leone5.45.8
South Africa24.223.218.220.7
South Sudan9.9
Sudan16.7
Tanzania32.337.443.2
Togo5.05.4
Tunisia2.52.21.51.00.3
Uganda22.223.327.6
Zambia11.012.0
Zimbabwe6.18.79.3