Number of Poor - Number of poor at $5.5 a day based on purchasing-power-parity

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Number of people living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government

Number of poor at $5.5 a day based on purchasing-power-parity (million persons)

	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Albania			1.2			1.0		1.1	1.0	1.0	1.0
Algeria					10.5
Angola		13.2										27.3
Argentina		10.3	8.8	5.2	4.4	4.1	4.2	4.6		4.6	4.0	5.0	6.0
Armenia			1.8	1.6	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.3	1.2	1.1	1.2	1.3	1.3
Australia				0.1				0.2
Austria		0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Azerbaijan			0.6
Bangladesh		116.8	124.0	129.2						133.0
Belarus		6.6	1.7	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
Belgium		0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Benin					8.5				9.6
Bhutan						0.3					0.3
Bolivia		5.2	4.8		2.9	2.9	2.7	2.7	2.8	2.9	2.9	2.7	2.3
Bosnia and Herzegovina					0.1
Botswana									1.3
Brazil	85.8		70.5		47.1	42.0	38.8	35.7	38.1	41.2	42.0	41.5	41.4
Bulgaria				0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.9	0.7	0.6	0.5
Burkina Faso								16.2
Burundi							9.5
Cameroon								16.1
Canada		0.2		0.2		0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
Cape Verde									0.2
Chad					10.7
Chile	6.1	4.7			2.1		1.2		0.9		0.7
China	1,116.0		919.5	715.2	661.4	599.1	493.5	429.9	373.2	330.4
Colombia		21.4	20.2	17.4	16.3	15.8	15.0	14.1	13.8	13.8	13.7	14.0	14.8
Comoros								0.5
Congo, Dem. Rep.						67.5
Congo, Rep.			3.3		3.7
Costa Rica	1.3	1.2	0.9	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5
Cote d'Ivoire									19.3
Croatia				0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1
Cyprus			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Czech Republic			0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
Denmark		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Djibouti						0.6	0.7				0.7
Dominican Republic		2.6	3.3	3.1	3.0	3.1	3.0	2.6	2.2	2.1	1.7	1.5	1.3
Ecuador		9.2	6.4	5.2	4.6	4.3	4.3	3.8	4.0	4.0	3.9	4.1	4.4
Egypt, Arab Rep.	44.3			58.4		58.5			59.5		71.5
El Salvador		2.7	2.8	2.6	2.6	2.5	2.2	2.2	2.1	2.0	1.9	1.7	1.4
Estonia			0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Eswatini		0.9								0.8
Ethiopia				82.0					93.5
Fiji							0.3
Finland		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
France		0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1
Gabon			0.8								0.7
Gambia, The				1.4					1.5
Georgia		3.0	2.4	2.3	2.2	2.0	1.8	1.7	1.7	1.6	1.6	1.6	1.6
Germany		0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.4
Ghana			17.0			15.6				16.0
Greece		0.3	0.2	0.3	0.5	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.6	0.5	0.3
Guatemala		5.2						7.5
Guinea						9.9
Guinea-Bissau				1.4
Haiti						8.1
Honduras	4.1		4.6	4.2	4.3	4.9	4.7	4.7	4.8	4.6	4.7	4.8	4.8
Hungary			0.5	0.2	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2
Iceland			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
India					1,106.8
Indonesia	174.7	201.1	194.3	182.7	176.9	177.3	173.1	170.0	166.2	156.1	147.6	142.4	141.2
Iran, Islamic Rep.	24.8		11.1				8.2	10.2	10.5	10.9	10.7	11.5
Iraq						16.7
Ireland		0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Israel			0.4	0.3		0.4		0.3		0.2
Italy		1.7	1.0	1.5	1.4	1.7	1.7	1.7	2.1	1.9	1.9
Jamaica	1.2
Japan				0.6			1.5
Jordan				1.3
Kazakhstan			7.4	2.4	1.2	1.2	0.7	0.8	1.0	1.7	1.2	0.8
Kenya			32.4						42.5
Korea, Rep.				0.7		0.6		0.5		0.4
Kyrgyz Republic		4.5	4.1	3.3	3.3	3.6	3.7	3.5	3.8	3.7	3.7	3.5	3.4
Lao PDR						5.1						5.0
Latvia			0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0
Lebanon					0.1
Lesotho											1.5
Liberia								4.1		4.3
Lithuania			0.4	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Luxembourg		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
North Macedonia				0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4
Madagascar			17.8	20.6		21.8
Malawi				14.0						16.6
Malaysia					2.5		1.2		0.9
Maldives										0.0
Malta				0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Mauritania		2.0						2.3
Mauritius						0.2					0.2
Mexico		43.3	38.9	38.0		37.0		40.0		31.4		28.6
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.			0.1				0.1
Moldova		2.6	2.1	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3
Mongolia				1.0	0.9	0.7		0.5		0.9		0.9
Montenegro						0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Morocco	12.4	17.1					10.3
Mozambique								24.2
Myanmar									32.7		29.0
Namibia									1.2
Nepal				22.4
Netherlands	0.3		0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Nicaragua			3.0					2.2
Niger			13.2		16.4			18.0
Nigeria												184.9
Norway		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Pakistan	104.5		145.2	152.8	156.5		155.5		154.5			161.8
Panama		1.1	1.2	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5
Paraguay	0.7		2.0	1.8	1.7	1.4	1.2	1.2	1.3	1.3	1.2	1.1	1.1
Peru		13.9	14.6	9.1	8.6	7.9	7.8	7.6	7.4	7.6	7.6	7.1	6.7
Philippines		49.9				58.2			55.7			50.0
Poland			3.4	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.0	0.9	0.6	0.5	0.4
Portugal			0.3	0.2	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2
Romania				4.8	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.1	4.5	3.4	2.5	2.1
Russian Federation		55.5	26.6	7.9	6.7	6.1	5.4	5.2	5.9	5.9	5.5	5.3
Rwanda		7.6	8.5	9.6			10.3			11.0
Samoa							0.1
Sao Tome and Principe		0.1		0.2							0.2
Senegal			10.1		11.5
Serbia						1.6	1.8	1.8	1.7	1.5	1.4
Seychelles							0.0					0.0
Sierra Leone					6.2							7.1
Slovak Republic			0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2		0.1
Slovenia			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Solomon Islands			0.4			0.5
South Africa		32.0	32.4	28.7				31.5
South Sudan										10.6
Spain	1.1	0.6	1.0	1.1	1.3	1.4	1.6	1.4	1.5	1.5	1.0	1.1
Sri Lanka	14.1					10.6				8.9
St. Lucia										0.0
Sudan								30.1
Sweden		0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Switzerland		0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tajikistan									4.3
Tanzania		33.3			43.9						51.7
Thailand	36.5	30.6		11.8	9.0	9.1	7.7	7.1	4.8	5.7	5.3	5.8	4.3
Timor-Leste								1.1
Togo					6.0				6.6
Tonga		0.0							0.0
Tunisia	4.9	4.9	4.2	3.2					2.0
Turkey			16.7	11.0	9.6	9.2	8.2	7.7	8.4	7.6	7.0	7.0	8.5
Tuvalu				0.0
Uganda			25.6			30.1				34.7
Ukraine			8.0	2.4	2.1	1.5	1.3	1.1	2.8	2.5	2.1	1.5	1.1
United Kingdom		0.4	0.7	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.3	0.6
United States		3.5	4.4	5.4	5.5	5.5	5.5	6.4	5.6	5.6	5.7	5.7
Uruguay		0.3	0.6	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Uzbekistan		23.8
Vanuatu				0.2
Venezuela, RB			12.0
Vietnam				41.2		36.6		32.1		25.5		21.4
Yemen, Rep.			15.3					20.9
Zambia				12.4					14.0
Zimbabwe					9.5						11.6		12.1

Number of poor at $5.5 a day based on purchasing-power-parity (million persons)

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