Poverty Headcount Ratio - Poverty headcount ratio at $3.2 a day based on purchasing-power-parity

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Zimbabwe is the top country by poverty ratio at $3.2 a day in the world. As of 2019, poverty ratio at $3.2 a day in Zimbabwe was 63.8 %. The top 5 countries also includes Honduras, Indonesia, Georgia, and Colombia.

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.

Poverty headcount ratio at $3.2 a day based on purchasing-power-parity (%)

	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Albania			8.7			6.2		11.6	8.2	9.4	8.2
Algeria					3.7
Angola		59.7										71.5
Argentina		15.1	11.2	4.9	3.3	3.5	3.2	3.6		3.6	3.2	4.0	4.9
Armenia			19.5	14.1	13.1	11.3	11.4	11.4	9.5	9.6	8.1	9.4	9.8
Australia				0.7				0.7
Austria		0.2	0.2	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.4	0.3	0.7	0.9	0.4	0.7
Azerbaijan			0.0
Bangladesh		72.3	65.8	60.0						52.3
Belarus		27.8	2.7	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Belgium		0.7	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1
Benin					76.8				76.2
Bhutan						14.7					12.2
Bolivia		41.3	32.0		14.0	14.6	12.2	12.1	11.6	13.1	12.4	11.0	7.8
Bosnia and Herzegovina					0.7
Botswana									36.5
Brazil	38.3		19.6		10.2	9.0	7.9	7.0	7.7	8.8	9.1	9.1	9.1
Bulgaria				4.4	5.0	5.4	5.0	3.9	6.0	4.6	3.3	2.2
Burkina Faso								76.7
Burundi							89.6
Cameroon								47.0
Canada		0.5		0.2		0.2	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Cape Verde									15.4
Chad					66.3
Chile	22.2	12.1			2.6		1.3		1.0		0.7
China	90.0		43.2	28.6	23.5	20.2	12.1	9.5	7.0	5.4
Colombia		31.4	23.9	18.5	16.5	15.6	14.2	13.2	11.9	11.8	11.1	11.1	12.7
Comoros								39.7
Congo, Dem. Rep.						91.4
Congo, Rep.			76.2		64.1
Costa Rica	19.7	13.9	8.0	4.2	4.4	4.3	4.2	4.0	4.1	3.8	2.8	3.7	3.2
Cote d'Ivoire									59.1
Croatia				2.3	1.9	2.2	2.0	1.8	1.3	1.3	1.1	0.7
Cyprus			0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
Czech Republic			0.1	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.0
Denmark		0.0	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	0.2
Djibouti						38.0	44.2				39.8
Dominican Republic		12.9	16.4	12.0	10.4	11.1	10.1	7.8	6.4	5.9	3.8	2.6	2.7
Ecuador		50.0	25.3	14.9	12.2	11.5	10.1	8.6	9.4	9.4	8.7	9.7	9.8
Egypt, Arab Rep.	40.5			23.7		19.0			18.2		28.9
El Salvador		24.3	23.1	18.3	16.7	14.7	12.7	12.4	10.2	10.7	8.7	8.0	5.7
Estonia			1.6	1.6	1.6	1.3	1.5	1.2	0.9	0.7	0.5	0.5
Eswatini		72.0								52.1
Ethiopia				74.6					68.9
Fiji							7.5
Finland		0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
France		0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.1
Gabon			25.8								11.2
Gambia, The				53.5					38.4
Georgia		44.2	30.1	30.6	28.3	25.4	20.8	17.8	15.7	16.1	16.1	15.5	14.9
Germany		0.2	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.2
Ghana			48.0			30.9				29.3
Greece		1.0	0.5	1.3	2.0	2.9	2.7	3.0	2.9	2.1	1.6	0.3
Guatemala		22.4						24.4
Guinea						70.9
Guinea-Bissau				85.4
Haiti						50.3
Honduras	64.9		42.0	29.9	30.0	35.7	31.6	31.8	30.9	30.4	29.3	29.6	29.0
Hungary			1.2	0.3	0.3	0.6	0.8	1.0	1.1	1.8	1.2	0.5
Iceland			0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0
India					61.7
Indonesia	85.4	77.2	57.3	45.0	41.9	40.3	37.6	34.8	30.5	28.6	24.6	21.5	19.9
Iran, Islamic Rep.	20.1		4.0				1.7	3.2	3.2	3.1	2.9	3.1
Iraq						14.8
Ireland		0.2	0.1	0.8	0.7	0.5	0.8	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.3
Israel			1.2	1.0		0.9		1.0		0.7
Italy		1.7	1.0	1.6	1.5	1.8	2.0	1.7	2.5	2.2	1.8
Jamaica	20.4
Japan				0.2			0.9
Jordan				2.0
Kazakhstan			21.9	1.5	0.6	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.6	0.3	0.2
Kenya			69.6						66.5
Korea, Rep.				0.7		0.5		0.5		0.2
Kyrgyz Republic		72.8	46.5	19.0	16.5	17.1	21.3	14.9	18.4	14.1	14.7	10.9	9.7
Lao PDR						46.6						37.4
Latvia			4.8	3.6	2.9	2.6	2.4	1.8	1.6	1.4	1.5	0.9
Lebanon					0.1
Lesotho											49.9
Liberia								76.4		75.6
Lithuania			4.3	3.1	1.5	2.0	2.0	2.7	1.4	2.2	1.5	1.3
Luxembourg		0.0	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.4	0.4
North Macedonia				17.9	15.5	14.1	12.0	10.5	10.1	9.6	9.0	7.1
Madagascar			89.2	91.2		91.5
Malawi				88.6						89.0
Malaysia					1.2		0.4		0.3
Maldives										0.2
Malta				0.3	0.4	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2
Mauritania		47.1						24.1
Mauritius						3.2					2.2
Mexico		21.0	16.0	12.6		12.1		11.8		7.8		6.5
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.			24.6				38.7
Moldova		68.1	40.3	6.0	4.1	3.1	2.1	1.1	1.3	1.2	1.0	0.9
Mongolia				9.6	6.6	4.1		3.0		6.2		5.0
Montenegro						10.5	8.3	8.6	8.0	6.0
Morocco	19.3	26.7					7.3
Mozambique								82.4
Myanmar									24.6		15.0
Namibia									30.3
Nepal				50.8
Netherlands	1.5		0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.2
Nicaragua			27.4					13.1
Niger			90.9		83.7			77.2
Nigeria												71.0
Norway		0.2	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.4	0.3	0.3
Pakistan	87.9		61.5	48.0	46.6		40.0		35.5			35.7
Panama		20.0	18.6	10.7	8.6	10.0	8.1	8.3	6.7	7.0	6.3	5.2	4.6
Paraguay	4.2		13.8	12.7	12.3	9.1	6.3	6.8	6.6	6.7	4.8	5.4	4.5
Peru		30.8	30.9	14.9	13.4	12.3	11.5	10.7	10.4	10.1	9.9	8.4	7.5
Philippines		37.9				33.3			25.7			17.0
Poland			2.4	1.0	0.8	0.7	0.9	1.0	0.8	0.5	0.6	0.4
Portugal			1.1	0.4	0.9	1.5	1.6	1.4	1.1	0.7	0.7	0.7
Romania				10.2	11.5	12.2	14.0	12.6	11.0	8.3	6.3	5.1
Russian Federation		13.1	4.5	0.8	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
Rwanda		90.6	85.6	84.0			81.9			80.2
Samoa							9.6
Sao Tome and Principe		66.4		72.0							65.4
Senegal			67.7		68.4
Serbia						10.0	11.5	12.2	11.6	10.9	8.9
Seychelles							3.1					1.1
Sierra Leone					82.6							76.0
Slovak Republic			0.4	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.8	1.2	1.0	1.8		1.0
Slovenia			0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Solomon Islands			73.0			58.1
South Africa		53.2	48.4	35.6				37.3
South Sudan										91.6
Spain	1.0	0.7	1.1	1.1	1.7	1.6	1.7	1.5	1.5	1.7	1.1	1.3
Sri Lanka	44.5					16.2				11.0
St. Lucia										10.2
Sudan								44.0
Sweden		0.0	1.2	0.7	0.8	0.5	0.8	0.6	0.8	0.5	0.3	0.9
Switzerland		0.2		0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
Tajikistan									17.8
Tanzania		96.3			79.5						76.8
Thailand	35.9	18.3		2.4	1.3	1.4	1.1	0.9	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.5	0.3
Timor-Leste								65.9
Togo					75.9				74.2
Tonga		7.9							7.5
Tunisia	30.5	22.9	15.2	9.2					3.0
Turkey			9.4	4.3	4.0	3.1	2.7	2.1	2.4	1.6	1.5	1.4	2.2
Tuvalu				17.6
Uganda			80.2			67.3				69.6
Ukraine			2.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.2
United Kingdom		0.5	0.8	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.5
United States		0.7	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.5	1.2	1.2	1.5	1.2
Uruguay		2.1	4.7	1.3	1.0	1.1	0.9	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.5
Uzbekistan		86.5
Vanuatu				39.4
Venezuela, RB			24.4
Vietnam				16.8		13.0		11.0		7.8		6.6
West Bank and Gaza			5.0	3.2	3.0					4.5
Yemen, Rep.			37.7					51.2
Zambia				80.8					75.4
Zimbabwe					47.2						61.0		63.8

Poverty headcount ratio at $3.2 a day based on purchasing-power-parity (%)

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