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Population below poverty line

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National estimates of the percentage of the population falling below the poverty line are based on surveys of sub-groups, with the results weighted by the number of people in each group. Definitions of poverty vary considerably among nations. 

Afghanistan

54.5% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Albania

22% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Angola

32.3% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Argentina

39.2% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Armenia

24.8% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Australia

13.4% (2020 est.)

Austria

14.8% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Azerbaijan

4.9% (2015 est.)

Bangladesh

18.7% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Belarus

4.8% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Belgium

12.3% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Benin

38.5% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Bhutan

12.4% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Bolivia

39% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Bosnia and Herzegovina

16.9% (2015 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Botswana

16.1% (2015 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Brazil

4.2% (2016 est.)

note: approximately 4% of the population are below the "extreme" poverty line

Bulgaria

20.6% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Burkina Faso

43.2% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Burma

24.8% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Cabo Verde

35.2% (2015 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Cambodia

16.5% (2016 est.)

Cameroon

37.5% (2014 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Central African Republic

68.8% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Chad

42.3% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Chile

10.8% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

China

0% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Colombia

36.6% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Costa Rica

25.5% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Cote d'Ivoire

37.5% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Croatia

18% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Cyprus

13.9% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Czechia

10.2% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Denmark

12.4% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Djibouti

21.1% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Dominican Republic

23.9% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Ecuador

25.2% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Egypt

29.7% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

El Salvador

26.6% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Estonia

22.5% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Eswatini

58.9% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Ethiopia

23.5% (2015 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Faroe Islands

10% (2015 est.)

Fiji

24.1% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Finland

12.2% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

France

15.6% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Gabon

33.4% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Gambia, The

53.4% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Gaza Strip

29.2% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line; entry includes West Bank and Gaza Strip

Georgia

15.6% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Germany

14.8% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Ghana

23.4% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Greece

18.8% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Greenland

16.2% (2015 est.)

Grenada

25% (2018 est.)

Guatemala

59.3% (2014 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Guinea

43.7% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Guinea-Bissau

47.7% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Honduras

48% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Hong Kong

19.9% (2016 est.)

Hungary

12.1% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Iceland

8.8% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Indonesia

9.4% (2023 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Iraq

23% (2014 est.)

Ireland

14% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Israel

22% (2014 est.)

note: Israel's poverty line is $7.30 per person per day

Italy

20.1% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Jamaica

17.1% (2016 est.)

Jordan

15.7% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Kazakhstan

5.2% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Kenya

36.1% (2015 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Kiribati

21.9% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Korea, South

14.4% (2016 est.)

Kosovo

17.6% (2015 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Kyrgyzstan

33.3% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Laos

18.3% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Latvia

22.5% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Lesotho

49.7% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Liberia

50.9% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Lithuania

20.9% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Luxembourg

17.3% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Malawi

50.7% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Malaysia

6.2% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Maldives

5.4% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Mali

44.6% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Malta

16.7% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Marshall Islands

7.2% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Mauritania

31.8% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Mauritius

10.3% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Mexico

36.3% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Moldova

31.1% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Mongolia

27.8% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Montenegro

21.2% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Mozambique

46.1% (2014 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Namibia

17.4% (2015 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Netherlands

14.5% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Nicaragua

24.9% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Niger

40.8% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Nigeria

40.1% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

North Macedonia

21.8% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Norway

12.2% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Pakistan

21.9% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Panama

21.5% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Paraguay

24.7% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Peru

27.5% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Philippines

18.1% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Poland

11.8% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Portugal

16.4% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Romania

21.2% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Russia

11% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Rwanda

38.2% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Saint Lucia

25% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Samoa

21.9% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Sao Tome and Principe

55.5% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Serbia

21.2% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Seychelles

25.3% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Sierra Leone

56.8% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Slovakia

13.7% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Slovenia

12.7% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Somalia

54.4% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

South Africa

55.5% (2014 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

South Sudan

82.3% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Spain

20.2% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Sri Lanka

14.3% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Sweden

16.1% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Switzerland

14.7% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Syria

82.5% (2014 est.)

Tajikistan

22.5% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Tanzania

26.4% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Thailand

6.3% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Timor-Leste

41.8% (2014 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Togo

45.5% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Tonga

20.6% (2021 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago

20% (2014 est.)

Tunisia

16.6% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Turkey (Turkiye)

14.4% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Uganda

20.3% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Ukraine

1.6% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

United Kingdom

18.6% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Uruguay

9.9% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Vanuatu

15.9% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Venezuela

33.1% (2015 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Vietnam

4.8% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

West Bank

29.2% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line; entry includes West Bank and Gaza Strip

Yemen

48.6% (2014 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Zambia

60% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Zimbabwe

38.3% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line