Poverty headcount ratio at $3.20 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.20 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burundi | 89.6 | ||||||||||||
| Comoros | 39.7 | ||||||||||||
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | 91.4 | ||||||||||||
| Djibouti | 38.0 | 44.2 | 39.8 | ||||||||||
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | 40.5 | 23.7 | 19.0 | 18.2 | 28.9 | ||||||||
| Eswatini | 72.0 | 52.1 | |||||||||||
| Ethiopia | 74.6 | 68.9 | |||||||||||
| Kenya | 69.6 | 66.5 | |||||||||||
| Madagascar | 89.2 | 91.2 | 91.5 | ||||||||||
| Malawi | 88.6 | 89.0 | |||||||||||
| Mauritius | 3.2 | 2.2 | |||||||||||
| Rwanda | 90.6 | 85.6 | 84.0 | 81.9 | 80.2 | ||||||||
| Seychelles | 3.1 | 1.1 | |||||||||||
| Sudan | 44.0 | ||||||||||||
| Tunisia | 30.5 | 22.9 | 15.2 | 9.2 | 3.0 | ||||||||
| Uganda | 80.2 | 67.3 | 69.6 | ||||||||||
| Zambia | 80.8 | 75.4 | |||||||||||
| Zimbabwe | 47.2 | 61.0 | 63.8 |