Number of people, in millions, living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 PPP is calculated by multiplying the poverty rate and the population. 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 32.1 | 16.0 | 9.3 | 7.4 | 6.2 | 5.5 | 6.4 | 8.0 | 9.2 | 9.3 | 9.7 | ||
| China | 752.3 | 241.7 | 149.9 | 106.6 | 87.8 | 25.3 | 18.6 | 10.0 | 7.2 | ||||
| India | 284.6 | ||||||||||||
| Russian Federation | 4.5 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||
| South Africa | 15.8 | 12.3 | 8.3 | 10.4 |