Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $1.90 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 0.3 | 0.5 | ||||||||||
| Bangladesh | 34.2 | 25.1 | 19.2 | 14.3 | ||||||||
| Botswana | 14.5 | |||||||||||
| Cameroon | 26.0 | |||||||||||
| Canada | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||
| Cyprus | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||
| Eswatini | 48.9 | 29.2 | ||||||||||
| Gambia, The | 25.4 | 10.3 | ||||||||||
| Ghana | 23.4 | 11.2 | 12.7 | |||||||||
| India | 22.5 | |||||||||||
| Jamaica | 4.6 | |||||||||||
| Kenya | 43.9 | 37.1 | ||||||||||
| Lesotho | 27.2 | |||||||||||
| Malawi | 71.1 | 69.2 | ||||||||||
| Malaysia | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||||||||
| Malta | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||
| Mauritius | 0.6 | 0.2 | ||||||||||
| Mozambique | 63.7 | |||||||||||
| Namibia | 13.8 | |||||||||||
| Nigeria | 39.1 | |||||||||||
| Pakistan | 60.6 | 18.7 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 6.2 | 4.0 | 4.4 | |||||
| Rwanda | 78.0 | 69.1 | 63.2 | 57.9 | 56.5 | |||||||
| Samoa | 1.1 | |||||||||||
| Seychelles | 1.2 | 0.5 | ||||||||||
| Sierra Leone | 54.7 | 43.0 | ||||||||||
| Solomon Islands | 48.6 | 24.7 | ||||||||||
| South Africa | 34.8 | 25.7 | 16.2 | 18.7 | ||||||||
| Sri Lanka | 9.3 | 1.9 | 0.9 | |||||||||
| St. Lucia | 4.6 | |||||||||||
| Tanzania | 86.2 | 49.6 | 49.4 | |||||||||
| Tonga | 2.5 | 1.0 | ||||||||||
| Tuvalu | 3.3 | |||||||||||
| Uganda | 57.0 | 35.7 | 41.3 | |||||||||
| United Kingdom | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | ||
| Vanuatu | 13.2 | |||||||||||
| Zambia | 65.8 | 58.7 |