In 2014, poverty rate at $1.9 a day for Yemen was 19.8 %. Between 1998 and 2014, poverty rate at $1.9 a day of Yemen grew substantially from 8.1 to 19.8 % rising at an increasing annual rate that reached a maximum of 88.57% in 2014.
The description is composed by our digital data assistant.Population below $1.9 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $1.9 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.