In 2014, poverty rate at $3.2 a day for South Africa was 40 %. Poverty rate at $3.2 a day of South Africa fell gradually from 55.4 % in 2000 to 40 % in 2014.
The description is composed by our digital data assistant.Population below $3.1 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.1 a day at 2005 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.