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.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.9 a day based on purchasing-power-parity (%)

1990200020052010201120122013201420152016201720182019
Burundi72.8
Comoros19.1
Congo, Dem. Rep.77.2
Djibouti18.222.317.0
Egypt, Arab Rep.8.72.21.51.63.8
Eswatini48.929.2
Ethiopia35.630.8
Kenya43.937.1
Madagascar71.778.278.8
Malawi71.169.2
Mauritius0.60.2
Rwanda78.069.163.257.956.5
Seychelles1.20.5
Sudan12.2
Tunisia10.76.03.42.00.2
Uganda57.035.741.3
Zambia65.858.7
Zimbabwe21.433.939.5