⚠️ Unconfirmedeconomic2024

Population living below national poverty lines

Name: Population living below national poverty lines
Creator: World Bank — Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)
Keywords: statistic-of-the-day, ai-generated, poverty, inequality, living standards, SDG1, household surveys, PIP

Share of people living below each country’s national poverty line (latest year 2019–2024). Compare poverty measured by national standards worldwide.

Source: World Bank — Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)•157 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

26.4%

Median: 21.9%

Countries Covered

157

with available data

Highest

South Sudan

82.3%

Lowest

United Arab Emirates

0.0%

Top 5 Countries

1South Sudan82.3%

2Madagascar80.0%

3Democratic Republic of the Congo73.5%

4Eritrea69.6%

5Syrian Arab Republic69.0%

By Region

Other34.1%(80 countries)

Africa30.8%(9 countries)

North America28.5%(4 countries)

South America25.2%(7 countries)

Europe16.5%(31 countries)

Key Findings

•Nationally measured poverty can remain high (often >40%) in several low-income and fragile settings despite global progress on international poverty lines.
•Some high-income countries still report non-trivial poverty shares under national standards, reflecting relative poverty concepts and social thresholds.
•Because national lines embed local prices and norms, this metric is especially useful for tracking domestic poverty trends over time rather than making a single global league table.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0%)High (80.0%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 26.4%)

Other (80)

Africa (9)

North America (4)

South America (7)

Europe (31)

Asia (24)

Oceania (2)

About This Statistic

This statistic measures the percentage of a country’s population living below its nationally defined poverty line. Unlike an international poverty line (e.g., $2.15/day), national poverty lines reflect each country’s own cost of basic needs and social standards, so the results are best used for within-country tracking and broad cross-country context rather than strict like-for-like ranking.

The indicator is widely reported through the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) and draws on nationally representative household surveys (income or consumption, depending on the country). It is an interesting global snapshot because it captures how countries define and track deprivation domestically—often revealing high poverty shares even in middle-income settings, while some countries record very low rates based on national thresholds and strong social protection.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	South Sudan	82.3%
2	Madagascar	80.0%
3	Democratic Republic of the Congo	73.5%
4	Eritrea	69.6%
5	Syrian Arab Republic	69.0%
6	Burundi	64.9%
7	Eswatini	58.9%
8	Haiti	58.5%
9	Sierra Leone	56.8%
10	Guatemala	56.0%
11	South Africa	55.5%
12	Liberia	55.0%
13	Somalia	54.4%
14	Zambia	54.4%
15	Malawi	51.5%
16	Venezuela	50.5%
17	Lesotho	49.7%
18	Republic of The Gambia	48.6%
19	Yemen	48.6%
20	Honduras	48.3%
21	Sudan	46.5%
22	Mozambique	46.4%
23	Togo	45.5%
24	Guinea	43.7%
25	Republic of the Congo	43.2%
26	Mali	42.8%
27	Timor-Leste	41.8%
28	Chad	41.4%
29	Burkina Faso	41.4%
30	Argentina	41.0%
31	Niger	40.8%
32	Angola	40.6%
33	Central African Republic	40.1%
34	Nigeria	40.1%
35	Papua New Guinea	39.9%
36	Cote d'Ivoire	39.5%
37	Colombia	39.3%
38	Bolivia	39.0%
39	Zimbabwe	38.3%
40	Rwanda	38.2%
41	Guinea-Bissau	38.0%
42	Senegal	37.8%
43	Cameroon	37.5%
44	Mexico	36.3%
45	Kenya	36.1%
46	Botswana	34.4%
47	Kyrgyzstan	33.3%
48	Libya	33.0%
49	Mauritania	31.2%
50	Egypt	29.7%
51	Samoa	28.9%
52	Lebanon	28.6%
53	Suriname	28.1%
54	Benin	27.8%
55	Mongolia	27.8%
56	Peru	27.5%
57	Paraguay	26.9%
58	Cuba	26.5%
59	United Republic of Tanzania	26.4%
60	Tajikistan	26.3%
61	El Salvador	26.2%
62	Ecuador	25.2%
63	Nicaragua	24.9%
64	Myanmar	24.8%
65	Moldova, Republic of	24.5%
66	Solomon Islands	24.3%
67	Country 532	24.0%
68	Ethiopia	23.5%
69	Armenia	23.5%
70	Ghana	23.4%
71	Romania	23.4%
72	Austria	23.4%
73	Belize	23.1%
74	Dominican Republic	23.0%
75	Ukraine	23.0%
76	Iraq	22.5%
77	Latvia	22.5%
78	Cyprus	21.9%
79	India	21.9%
80	Pakistan	21.9%
81	Türkiye	21.9%
82	The Republic of North Macedonia	21.9%
83	Estonia	21.7%
84	Brazil	21.7%
85	Djibouti	21.5%
86	Uganda	21.4%
87	Costa Rica	21.0%
88	Israel	20.8%
89	Lithuania	20.6%
90	Spain	20.4%
91	Italy	20.1%
92	Trinidad and Tobago	20.0%
93	Georgia	19.5%
94	Croatia	19.3%
95	Serbia	19.3%
96	Albania	18.9%
97	Bulgaria	18.7%
98	Bangladesh	18.7%
99	Lao People's Democratic Republic	18.3%
100	Philippines	18.1%
101	Islamic Republic of Iran	18.0%
102	Luxembourg	18.0%
103	Greece	17.9%
104	Cambodia	17.8%
105	Namibia	17.4%
106	Nepal	17.4%
107	Jamaica	17.1%
108	Morocco	17.1%
109	Portugal	17.0%
110	Germany	16.7%
111	Bosnia and Herzegovina	16.7%
112	Tunisia	16.6%
113	Sweden	16.0%
114	Jordan	15.7%
115	Japan	15.4%
116	South Korea	15.0%
117	Poland	14.8%
118	Belgium	14.8%
119	France	14.6%
120	Brunei Darussalam	14.0%
121	Australia	13.4%
122	Ireland	13.1%
123	Netherlands	13.1%
124	Panama	13.0%
125	Norway	12.7%
126	Saudi Arabia	12.7%
127	Hungary	12.3%
128	Slovakia	12.3%
129	Denmark	12.2%
130	Finland	12.1%
131	Russian Federation	12.1%
132	Slovenia	12.0%
133	United States of America	11.6%
134	Uzbekistan	11.4%
135	New Zealand	11.3%
136	Chile	10.8%
137	Algeria	10.8%
138	Uruguay	10.6%
139	Canada	10.3%
140	Czech Republic	10.1%
141	Mauritius	10.0%
142	Indonesia	9.6%
143	Switzerland	8.7%
144	Iceland	7.4%
145	Thailand	6.3%
146	Malaysia	5.6%
147	Kazakhstan	5.3%
148	Vietnam	4.4%
149	Sri Lanka	4.1%
150	Fiji	3.1%
151	Bahrain	1.2%
152	People's Republic of China	0.6%
153	Afghanistan	0.4%
154	Kuwait	0.0%
155	Oman	0.0%
156	Qatar	0.0%
157	United Arab Emirates	0.0%

Showing 157 of 157 countries

Topics

#statistic-of-the-day #ai-generated #poverty #inequality #living standards #SDG1 #household surveys #PIP

Data Source

This data comes from World Bank — Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) (2024).

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