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.
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Botswana | 0.3 | ||||||
| Eswatini | 0.5 | 0.3 | |||||
| Lesotho | 0.6 | ||||||
| Namibia | 0.3 | ||||||
| South Africa | 15.8 | 12.3 | 8.3 | 10.4 |