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.

Number of poor at $1.9 a day based on purchasing-power-parity (million persons)

199020002005201020112012201320142015201620172018
Australia0.10.1
Bangladesh43.734.928.322.6
Botswana0.3
Cameroon5.9
Canada0.10.10.10.20.10.10.10.1
Cyprus0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Eswatini0.50.3
Gambia, The0.50.2
Ghana5.23.03.7
India284.6
Jamaica0.1
Kenya16.118.2
Lesotho0.6
Malawi10.311.9
Malaysia0.00.00.0
Malta0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Mauritius0.00.0
Mozambique16.7
Namibia0.3
Nigeria78.5
Pakistan65.330.614.915.012.08.29.4
Rwanda6.26.36.56.46.8
Samoa0.0
Seychelles0.00.0
Sierra Leone3.63.3
Solomon Islands0.20.1
South Africa15.812.38.310.4
Sri Lanka1.60.40.2
St. Lucia0.0
Tanzania28.923.427.8
Tonga0.00.0
Tuvalu0.0
Uganda15.812.416.4
United Kingdom0.10.30.10.20.10.10.10.10.10.2
Vanuatu0.0
Zambia9.09.3