Population below $1.9 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $1.9 a day at 2005 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.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.9 a day based on purchasing-power-parity in constant prices of 2011 (%)

20002005201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202022
Angola27.0039.30
Botswana21.40
Comoros31.40
Congo, Dem. Rep.78.9085.30
Lesotho41.90
Madagascar83.9087.3087.70
Malawi72.9071.7075.40
Mauritius1.100.50
Mozambique74.4082.20
Namibia22.90
Seychelles1.600.70
South Africa47.9042.1029.5031.20
Eswatini65.0044.50
Tanzania86.9051.5051.30
Zambia71.4067.9071.70
Zimbabwe35.7044.7049.20