Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 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.
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burundi | 96.9 | ||||||||||
| Chad | 86.2 | ||||||||||
| Comoros | 64.6 | ||||||||||
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | 97.9 | ||||||||||
| Cote d'Ivoire | 83.2 | ||||||||||
| Guinea | 92.5 | ||||||||||
| Guinea-Bissau | 93.8 | ||||||||||
| Haiti | 78.6 | ||||||||||
| Liberia | 94.1 | 93.2 | |||||||||
| Sao Tome and Principe | 90.5 | 92.8 | 86.4 | ||||||||
| Sierra Leone | 95.0 | 92.7 | |||||||||
| Solomon Islands | 88.5 | 84.5 | |||||||||
| South Sudan | 97.8 | ||||||||||
| Timor-Leste | 91.8 | ||||||||||
| Togo | 90.6 | 90.8 | |||||||||
| Yemen, Rep. | 75.9 | 81.0 |