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 | |
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Burundi | 72.8 | ||||||||||||
Comoros | 19.1 | ||||||||||||
Congo, Dem. Rep. | 77.2 | ||||||||||||
Djibouti | 18.2 | 22.3 | 17.0 | ||||||||||
Egypt, Arab Rep. | 8.7 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 3.8 | ||||||||
Eswatini | 48.9 | 29.2 | |||||||||||
Ethiopia | 35.6 | 30.8 | |||||||||||
Kenya | 43.9 | 37.1 | |||||||||||
Madagascar | 71.7 | 78.2 | 78.8 | ||||||||||
Malawi | 71.1 | 69.2 | |||||||||||
Mauritius | 0.6 | 0.2 | |||||||||||
Rwanda | 78.0 | 69.1 | 63.2 | 57.9 | 56.5 | ||||||||
Seychelles | 1.2 | 0.5 | |||||||||||
Sudan | 12.2 | ||||||||||||
Tunisia | 10.7 | 6.0 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 0.2 | ||||||||
Uganda | 57.0 | 35.7 | 41.3 | ||||||||||
Zambia | 65.8 | 58.7 | |||||||||||
Zimbabwe | 21.4 | 33.9 | 39.5 |