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.
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Botswana | 36.5 | ||||||
| Eswatini | 72.0 | 52.1 | |||||
| Lesotho | 49.9 | ||||||
| Namibia | 30.3 | ||||||
| South Africa | 53.2 | 48.4 | 35.6 | 37.3 |