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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burundi | 7.2 | ||||||||||||
| Comoros | 0.1 | ||||||||||||
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | 53.3 | ||||||||||||
| Djibouti | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||||||
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | 4.9 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 3.7 | ||||||||
| Eswatini | 0.5 | 0.3 | |||||||||||
| Ethiopia | 31.2 | 31.9 | |||||||||||
| Kenya | 16.1 | 18.2 | |||||||||||
| Madagascar | 13.2 | 16.5 | 17.6 | ||||||||||
| Malawi | 10.3 | 11.9 | |||||||||||
| Mauritius | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||||||
| Rwanda | 6.2 | 6.3 | 6.5 | 6.4 | 6.8 | ||||||||
| Seychelles | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||||||
| Sudan | 4.6 | ||||||||||||
| Tunisia | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| Uganda | 15.8 | 12.4 | 16.4 | ||||||||||
| Zambia | 9.0 | 9.3 | |||||||||||
| Zimbabwe | 2.8 | 4.8 | 5.8 |