Poverty headcount ratio at $3.20 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.20 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 | 15.1 | 11.2 | 4.9 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.0 | 4.9 | ||
| Bolivia | 41.3 | 32.0 | 14.0 | 14.6 | 12.2 | 12.1 | 11.6 | 13.1 | 12.4 | 11.0 | 7.8 | ||
| Brazil | 38.3 | 19.6 | 10.2 | 9.0 | 7.9 | 7.0 | 7.7 | 8.8 | 9.1 | 9.1 | 9.1 | ||
| Chile | 22.2 | 12.1 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.7 | |||||||
| Colombia | 31.4 | 23.9 | 18.5 | 16.5 | 15.6 | 14.2 | 13.2 | 11.9 | 11.8 | 11.1 | 11.1 | 12.7 | |
| Costa Rica | 19.7 | 13.9 | 8.0 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 3.2 |
| Dominican Republic | 12.9 | 16.4 | 12.0 | 10.4 | 11.1 | 10.1 | 7.8 | 6.4 | 5.9 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 2.7 | |
| Ecuador | 50.0 | 25.3 | 14.9 | 12.2 | 11.5 | 10.1 | 8.6 | 9.4 | 9.4 | 8.7 | 9.7 | 9.8 | |
| El Salvador | 24.3 | 23.1 | 18.3 | 16.7 | 14.7 | 12.7 | 12.4 | 10.2 | 10.7 | 8.7 | 8.0 | 5.7 | |
| Guatemala | 22.4 | 24.4 | |||||||||||
| Honduras | 64.9 | 42.0 | 29.9 | 30.0 | 35.7 | 31.6 | 31.8 | 30.9 | 30.4 | 29.3 | 29.6 | 29.0 | |
| Mexico | 21.0 | 16.0 | 12.6 | 12.1 | 11.8 | 7.8 | 6.5 | ||||||
| Nicaragua | 27.4 | 13.1 | |||||||||||
| Panama | 20.0 | 18.6 | 10.7 | 8.6 | 10.0 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 6.7 | 7.0 | 6.3 | 5.2 | 4.6 | |
| Paraguay | 4.2 | 13.8 | 12.7 | 12.3 | 9.1 | 6.3 | 6.8 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 4.8 | 5.4 | 4.5 | |
| Peru | 30.8 | 30.9 | 14.9 | 13.4 | 12.3 | 11.5 | 10.7 | 10.4 | 10.1 | 9.9 | 8.4 | 7.5 | |
| Portugal | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | |||
| Spain | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 1.3 | |
| Uruguay | 2.1 | 4.7 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | |
| Venezuela, RB | 24.4 |