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.
| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2015 | 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 0.2 | |||||||
| Egypt, Arab Rep. | 4.9 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 3.7 | |||
| Iraq | 0.5 | |||||||
| Tunisia | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 |