Lesotho - Poverty headcount ratio at $1.9 a day based on purchasing-power-parity

27.2 (%) in 2017

Lesotho poverty ratio at $1.9 a day was at level of 27.2 % in 2017, down from 61.9 % in 2002.

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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.