Number of poor at $1.9 a day based on purchasing-power-parity

(million persons)

Brazil is the top country by number of poor at $1.9 a day in the world. As of 2019, number of poor at $1.9 a day in Brazil was 9.7 million persons that accounts for 32.33% of the world's number of poor at $1.9 a day. The top 5 countries (others are Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Colombia, and Honduras) account for 89.00% of it. The world's total number of poor at $1.9 a day was estimated at 30 million persons in 2019.

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What is number of poor at $1.9 a day?

Number of people, in millions, living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 PPP is calculated by multiplying the poverty rate and the population. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.