Social & Inequality
Poverty < $2.15/day
SI.POV.DDAY ยท %
Annual series published by the World Bank. The chart carries the trajectory, the table carries the year by year figures, and the definition at the foot of the page is the World Bank's own, quoted as it stands.
Countries compared
8 countries compared out of 142 available.
Latest known value: 0.9% for Italy in 2023, over a series running from 1977 to 2023 and 7 countries compared, from the highest (South Sudan, 76.5%) to the lowest (China, 0%).
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Year by year values
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| Italy | Spain | Netherlands | United States | China | South Sudan | Sierra Leone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.1% | ||||||
| 2023 | 0.9% | 0.8% | 1.2% | ||||
| 2022 | 0.7% | 0.8% | 1.4% | 0% | |||
| 2021 | 0.9% | 0.7% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0% | ||
| 2020 | 0.9% | 1.1% | 0% | 0.4% | 0% | ||
| 2019 | 1% | 0.9% | 0.1% | 1% | 0% | ||
| 2018 | 1.7% | 1% | 0.1% | 1.1% | 0.7% | 41.5% | |
| 2017 | 1.5% | 0.8% | 0.2% | 1.3% | 1.6% | ||
| 2016 | 1.8% | 1.3% | 0.1% | 1.2% | 2.1% | 76.5% | |
| 2015 | 2.1% | 1.1% | 0.1% | 1.2% | 2.9% | ||
| 2014 | 1.4% | 0.9% | 0.1% | 1.3% | 4.6% | ||
| 2013 | 1.6% | 1.3% | 0.1% | 1.1% | 6% | ||
| 2012 | 1.4% | 1% | 0.1% | 1.1% | 12.9% | ||
| 2011 | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0.1% | 1.1% | 15.3% | 53.7% | |
| 2010 | 1.4% | 0.7% | 0% | 1.1% | 20.6% | ||
| 2009 | 1.1% | 0.9% | 0.2% | 1% | 44.9% | ||
| 2008 | 0.9% | 0.6% | 0.2% | 1.1% | 26.1% | ||
| 2007 | 0.8% | 0.6% | 0% | 1% | |||
| 2006 | 0.8% | 0.9% | 0% | 1.1% | |||
| 2005 | 0.8% | 0.9% | 0.1% | 1% | 32.9% | ||
| 2004 | 0.8% | 1% | 0.3% | 1.1% | |||
| 2003 | 0.9% | 0.9% | 1% | 72.4% | |||
| 2002 | 1.7% | 0.9% | 47.8% | ||||
| 2001 | 0.9% | ||||||
| 2000 | 1.3% | 0.9% | 0.8% | ||||
| 1999 | 0.7% | 0.3% | 0.7% | 58.5% | |||
| 1998 | 1.7% | 1.1% | 0.9% | ||||
| 1997 | 1% | 0.8% | |||||
| 1996 | 1.6% | 0.7% | 62.6% | ||||
| 1995 | 0.7% | 1.6% | 0.7% | ||||
| 1994 | 1.3% | 0.7% | |||||
| 1993 | 1.5% | 1.4% | 1.4% | 0.6% | 77.3% | ||
| 1992 | 0.6% | ||||||
| 1991 | 0.3% | 0.6% | |||||
| 1990 | 0.6% | 1.1% | 0.5% | 83.1% | |||
| 1989 | 0.1% | 0.5% | |||||
| 1988 | 0.5% | ||||||
| 1987 | 1.1% | 0.4% | 0.6% | 81.1% | |||
| 1986 | 0.4% | 0.6% | |||||
| 1985 | 0.5% | 0.6% | |||||
| 1984 | 0.2% | 0.6% | 91.3% | ||||
| 1983 | 0.2% | 0.7% | 0.7% | ||||
| 1982 | 0.1% | 0.8% | |||||
| 1981 | 0.1% | 0.6% | 97% | ||||
| 1980 | 0.2% | 0.8% | 0.6% | ||||
| 1979 | 0.5% | 0.7% | |||||
| 1978 | 0.5% | 0.6% | |||||
| 1977 | 0.3% | 0.6% | |||||
| 1976 | 0.7% | ||||||
| 1975 | 0.7% | ||||||
| 1974 | 0.9% | ||||||
| 1973 | 0.8% | ||||||
| 1972 | 0.8% | ||||||
| 1971 | 0.9% | ||||||
| 1970 | 1.1% | ||||||
| 1969 | 0.7% | ||||||
| 1968 | 0.9% | ||||||
| 1967 | 1.1% | ||||||
| 1966 | 1.2% | ||||||
| 1965 | 1.3% | ||||||
| 1964 | 1.5% | ||||||
| 1963 | 1.6% |
World Bank definition
Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population)
Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.00 a day at 2021 purchasing power adjusted 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.
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