Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $1.90 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 6.8 | 4.2 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 1.5 | ||
| Bolivia | 28.6 | 19.2 | 7.2 | 8.2 | 6.9 | 5.7 | 6.3 | 7.5 | 6.5 | 4.9 | 3.2 | ||
| Brazil | 21.5 | 8.6 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.6 | ||
| Canada | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||||
| Chile | 7.9 | 4.3 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |||||||
| Colombia | 16.8 | 9.8 | 7.8 | 6.3 | 6.2 | 5.6 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.9 | |
| Costa Rica | 10.2 | 6.7 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 1.0 |
| Dominican Republic | 5.5 | 5.7 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
| Ecuador | 28.4 | 11.8 | 5.7 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.6 | |
| El Salvador | 12.4 | 10.6 | 5.7 | 4.7 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.3 | |
| Guatemala | 9.3 | 8.8 | |||||||||||
| Haiti | 24.5 | ||||||||||||
| Honduras | 45.0 | 27.1 | 15.6 | 16.0 | 19.0 | 16.4 | 15.2 | 14.9 | 16.1 | 15.4 | 15.8 | 14.8 | |
| Jamaica | 4.6 | ||||||||||||
| Mexico | 9.0 | 6.6 | 4.5 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 2.2 | 1.7 | ||||||
| Nicaragua | 8.5 | 3.4 | |||||||||||
| Panama | 12.3 | 9.9 | 4.5 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 1.2 | |
| Paraguay | 1.0 | 5.8 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 3.2 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.9 | |
| Peru | 16.4 | 15.5 | 5.5 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 2.2 | |
| St. Lucia | 4.6 | ||||||||||||
| United States | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.0 | ||
| Uruguay | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
| Venezuela, RB | 13.9 |