Number of Poor - Number of poor at $1.9 a day based on purchasing-power-parity

NAM Topics Poverty Number of Poor

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.

Number of poor at $1.9 a day based on purchasing-power-parity (million persons)

	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Algeria					0.2
Angola		6.0										15.4
Azerbaijan			0.0
Bangladesh		43.7	34.9	28.3						22.6
Belarus		0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Benin					5.0				5.2
Bhutan						0.0					0.0
Bolivia		2.4	1.8		0.7	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.4
Botswana									0.3
Burkina Faso								7.7
Burundi							7.2
Cameroon								5.9
Cape Verde									0.0
Chad					4.7
Chile	1.1	0.7			0.1		0.1		0.1		0.1
Colombia		6.6	4.2	3.5	2.9	2.9	2.6	2.4	2.2	2.2	2.0	2.1	2.5
Comoros								0.1
Congo, Dem. Rep.						53.3
Congo, Rep.			2.0		1.7
Cote d'Ivoire									6.9
Djibouti						0.2	0.2				0.2
Dominican Republic		0.5	0.5	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1
Ecuador		3.6	1.6	0.9	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.6
Egypt, Arab Rep.	4.9			1.8		1.3			1.5		3.7
Eswatini		0.5								0.3
Ethiopia				31.2					31.9
Fiji							0.0
Gabon			0.1								0.1
Gambia, The				0.5					0.2
Ghana			5.2			3.0				3.7
Guatemala		1.1						1.3
Guinea						3.8
Guinea-Bissau				1.0
Haiti						2.5
Honduras	2.2		2.0	1.3	1.4	1.6	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.4
India					284.6
Indonesia	99.7	73.8	40.7	32.1	26.8	23.5	18.4	15.8	15.0	13.7	11.8	9.7	7.3
Iran, Islamic Rep.	3.5		0.4				0.1	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.4
Iraq						0.5
Jamaica	0.1
Jordan				0.0
Kenya			16.1						18.2
Korea, Rep.				0.2		0.1		0.1		0.1
Lao PDR						0.9						0.7
Lebanon					0.0
Lesotho											0.6
Liberia								1.8		2.0
Madagascar			13.2	16.5		17.6
Malawi				10.3						11.9
Malaysia					0.0		0.0		0.0
Maldives										0.0
Mauritania		0.5						0.2
Mauritius						0.0					0.0
Mongolia				0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0		0.0
Morocco	0.7	1.7					0.3
Mozambique								16.7
Myanmar									2.5		0.7
Namibia									0.3
Nepal				4.0
Nicaragua			0.5					0.2
Niger			10.3		8.7			8.7
Nigeria												78.5
Pakistan	65.3		30.6	14.9	15.0		12.0		8.2			9.4
Panama		0.4	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Peru		4.3	4.3	1.6	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.1	0.9	0.7
Philippines		10.7				10.1			6.3			2.9
Rwanda		6.2	6.3	6.5			6.4			6.8
Sao Tome and Principe		0.0		0.1							0.1
Senegal			4.4		5.0
Seychelles							0.0					0.0
Sierra Leone					3.6							3.3
South Africa		15.8	12.3	8.3				10.4
Sri Lanka	1.6					0.4				0.2
St. Lucia										0.0
Sudan								4.6
Tanzania		28.9			23.4						27.8
Thailand	5.2	1.5		0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Timor-Leste								0.3
Togo					3.6				3.7
Tunisia	0.9	0.6	0.3	0.2					0.0
Uganda			15.8			12.4				16.4
Uzbekistan		15.1
Vanuatu				0.0
Venezuela, RB			3.7
Vietnam				3.5		2.4		2.4		1.7		1.7
West Bank and Gaza			0.0	0.0	0.0					0.0
Yemen, Rep.			1.9					4.7
Zambia				9.0					9.3
Zimbabwe					2.8						4.8		5.8

Number of poor at $1.9 a day based on purchasing-power-parity (million persons)

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