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.
| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 28.6 | ||||||||||||
| Angola | 80.5 | 88.5 | |||||||||||
| Azerbaijan | 7.0 | ||||||||||||
| Bangladesh | 91.5 | 89.2 | 87.6 | 84.2 | |||||||||
| Belarus | 65.9 | 17.1 | 3.6 | 2.7 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
| Benin | 90.1 | 90.6 | |||||||||||
| Bhutan | 44.3 | 38.9 | |||||||||||
| Bolivia | 62.0 | 51.9 | 27.9 | 28.0 | 25.8 | 24.8 | 25.4 | 25.9 | 25.7 | 23.4 | 19.9 | ||
| Botswana | 59.1 | ||||||||||||
| Burkina Faso | 92.3 | ||||||||||||
| Burundi | 96.9 | ||||||||||||
| Cameroon | 71.0 | ||||||||||||
| Cape Verde | 41.3 | ||||||||||||
| Chad | 86.2 | ||||||||||||
| Chile | 45.6 | 30.4 | 12.0 | 6.6 | 5.1 | 3.6 | |||||||
| Colombia | 54.1 | 47.5 | 38.5 | 35.7 | 34.3 | 32.2 | 30.0 | 29.0 | 28.7 | 28.1 | 28.2 | 29.4 | |
| Comoros | 64.6 | ||||||||||||
| Congo, Dem. Rep. | 97.9 | ||||||||||||
| Congo, Rep. | 90.1 | 83.9 | |||||||||||
| Cote d'Ivoire | 83.2 | ||||||||||||
| Djibouti | 68.1 | 74.5 | 70.2 | ||||||||||
| Dominican Republic | 30.2 | 36.8 | 31.8 | 31.0 | 30.8 | 29.9 | 25.2 | 21.8 | 19.9 | 15.9 | 13.9 | 12.4 | |
| Ecuador | 72.7 | 46.5 | 34.5 | 30.2 | 27.6 | 27.2 | 23.8 | 24.8 | 24.0 | 23.3 | 24.2 | 25.4 | |
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | 78.8 | 70.5 | 67.7 | 64.4 | 72.6 | ||||||||
| Eswatini | 85.4 | 72.0 | |||||||||||
| Ethiopia | 93.6 | 90.2 | |||||||||||
| Fiji | 35.8 | ||||||||||||
| Gabon | 56.1 | 32.2 | |||||||||||
| Gambia, The | 80.7 | 72.7 | |||||||||||
| Ghana | 75.9 | 58.8 | 55.1 | ||||||||||
| Guatemala | 45.1 | 49.1 | |||||||||||
| Guinea | 92.5 | ||||||||||||
| Guinea-Bissau | 93.8 | ||||||||||||
| Haiti | 78.6 | ||||||||||||
| Honduras | 82.1 | 61.4 | 50.6 | 50.8 | 56.2 | 53.8 | 52.5 | 52.2 | 49.7 | 50.3 | 50.4 | 49.0 | |
| India | 87.4 | ||||||||||||
| Indonesia | 96.3 | 95.1 | 85.9 | 75.5 | 72.2 | 71.4 | 68.7 | 66.6 | 64.3 | 59.7 | 55.8 | 53.2 | 52.2 |
| Iran, Islamic Rep. | 44.1 | 15.8 | 10.7 | 13.1 | 13.4 | 13.7 | 13.2 | 14.0 | |||||
| Iraq | 52.4 | ||||||||||||
| Jamaica | 49.5 | ||||||||||||
| Jordan | 17.5 | ||||||||||||
| Kenya | 88.3 | 86.6 | |||||||||||
| Korea, Rep. | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.7 | |||||||||
| Lao PDR | 78.7 | 70.4 | |||||||||||
| Lebanon | 1.7 | ||||||||||||
| Lesotho | 73.2 | ||||||||||||
| Liberia | 94.1 | 93.2 | |||||||||||
| Madagascar | 97.0 | 97.5 | 97.5 | ||||||||||
| Malawi | 96.1 | 96.6 | |||||||||||
| Malaysia | 8.6 | 4.0 | 2.9 | ||||||||||
| Maldives | 3.6 | ||||||||||||
| Mauritania | 76.0 | 58.8 | |||||||||||
| Mauritius | 17.9 | 12.7 | |||||||||||
| Mongolia | 37.4 | 31.9 | 23.5 | 18.2 | 29.9 | 27.1 | |||||||
| Morocco | 48.9 | 58.9 | 30.2 | ||||||||||
| Mozambique | 92.2 | ||||||||||||
| Myanmar | 62.1 | 54.3 | |||||||||||
| Namibia | 51.0 | ||||||||||||
| Nepal | 83.0 | ||||||||||||
| Nicaragua | 54.4 | 35.4 | |||||||||||
| Niger | 97.1 | 95.8 | 93.6 | ||||||||||
| Nigeria | 92.0 | ||||||||||||
| Pakistan | 97.0 | 88.5 | 85.1 | 83.6 | 79.6 | 75.9 | 76.2 | ||||||
| Panama | 35.2 | 34.7 | 21.8 | 18.5 | 18.9 | 18.2 | 16.9 | 15.4 | 14.6 | 14.1 | 12.6 | 12.1 | |
| Peru | 52.6 | 52.5 | 31.5 | 29.5 | 26.9 | 26.3 | 25.3 | 24.4 | 24.6 | 24.2 | 22.3 | 20.6 | |
| Philippines | 64.0 | 59.9 | 54.6 | 46.9 | |||||||||
| Rwanda | 95.9 | 93.7 | 93.2 | 92.6 | 91.9 | ||||||||
| Sao Tome and Principe | 90.5 | 92.8 | 86.4 | ||||||||||
| Senegal | 88.8 | 88.4 | |||||||||||
| Seychelles | 7.0 | 5.2 | |||||||||||
| Sierra Leone | 95.0 | 92.7 | |||||||||||
| South Africa | 70.2 | 67.7 | 56.0 | 56.9 | |||||||||
| Sri Lanka | 81.4 | 51.7 | 42.0 | ||||||||||
| St. Lucia | 19.9 | ||||||||||||
| Sudan | 79.3 | ||||||||||||
| Tanzania | 99.4 | 93.2 | 91.8 | ||||||||||
| Thailand | 64.6 | 48.6 | 17.5 | 13.4 | 13.5 | 11.3 | 10.4 | 7.0 | 8.2 | 7.6 | 8.4 | 6.2 | |
| Timor-Leste | 91.8 | ||||||||||||
| Togo | 90.6 | 90.8 | |||||||||||
| Tunisia | 59.6 | 50.6 | 41.5 | 30.5 | 17.5 | ||||||||
| Uganda | 92.6 | 87.0 | 87.6 | ||||||||||
| Uzbekistan | 96.4 | ||||||||||||
| Vanuatu | 72.4 | ||||||||||||
| Venezuela, RB | 45.2 | ||||||||||||
| Vietnam | 46.8 | 40.8 | 35.0 | 27.2 | 22.4 | ||||||||
| West Bank and Gaza | 22.4 | 20.0 | 18.7 | 21.9 | |||||||||
| Yemen, Rep. | 75.9 | 81.0 | |||||||||||
| Zambia | 91.1 | 88.1 | |||||||||||
| Zimbabwe | 74.0 | 81.3 | 82.8 |