Social & Inequality
Poverty < $3.65/day
SI.POV.LMIC ยท %
Annual series published by the World Bank, compared across Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China, Ecuador. 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.
- Latest value, Germany
- 0.9%2022
- Period covered
- 1991 - 202232 annual values
- Highest of the compared countries
- 8.4%Ecuador, 2025
- Lowest of the compared countries
- 0.1%Netherlands, 2021
8 countries compared, that is the maximum. Remove one to add another.
Latest known valuesorted by value
Ecuador8.4%2025
United States1.2%2024
Italy1%2023
Spain1%2023
Germany0.9%2022
United Kingdom0.5%2021
China0.5%2022
Netherlands0.1%2021
Year by year values
Click the Year header to reverse the order. An empty cell means the World Bank publishes nothing for that country that year.
| Germany | United Kingdom | Italy | Spain | Netherlands | United States | China | Ecuador | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8.4% | |||||||
| 2024 | 1.2% | 12.1% | ||||||
| 2023 | 1% | 1% | 1.4% | 10% | ||||
| 2022 | 0.9% | 0.7% | 1% | 1.5% | 0.5% | 9.2% | ||
| 2021 | 0.7% | 0.5% | 1% | 0.9% | 0.1% | 0.6% | 0.3% | 10.8% |
| 2020 | 0.4% | 0.6% | 1.2% | 1.5% | 0.1% | 0.5% | 1.7% | 13.5% |
| 2019 | 0.2% | 0.5% | 1.3% | 1.2% | 0.1% | 1.2% | 3% | 9.5% |
| 2018 | 0.1% | 0.5% | 2.1% | 1.2% | 0.2% | 1.3% | 5.5% | 9.2% |
| 2017 | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.9% | 1.1% | 0.3% | 1.5% | 7.5% | 8.4% |
| 2016 | 0.1% | 0.4% | 2.3% | 1.7% | 0.2% | 1.3% | 8.4% | 9.1% |
| 2015 | 0.1% | 0.4% | 2.6% | 1.5% | 0.1% | 1.4% | 10.6% | 9.2% |
| 2014 | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.8% | 1.5% | 0.2% | 1.5% | 13.7% | 8.2% |
| 2013 | 0.1% | 0.3% | 2% | 1.7% | 0.1% | 1.3% | 16.7% | 9.7% |
| 2012 | 0.1% | 0.5% | 1.8% | 1.6% | 0.1% | 1.3% | 25.1% | 11% |
| 2011 | 0.1% | 0.5% | 1.5% | 1.7% | 0.2% | 1.3% | 29.1% | 11.9% |
| 2010 | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.6% | 1.1% | 0.1% | 1.3% | 34.9% | 14.4% |
| 2009 | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.3% | 1.1% | 0.2% | 1.1% | 16.9% | |
| 2008 | 0.1% | 0.5% | 1.1% | 0.9% | 0.2% | 1.3% | 41.3% | 17.7% |
| 2007 | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.1% | 0.7% | 0.1% | 1.2% | 18.7% | |
| 2006 | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.9% | 1.1% | 0.1% | 1.2% | 19.4% | |
| 2005 | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1% | 1.1% | 0.2% | 1.2% | 50.5% | 24.7% |
| 2004 | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.9% | 1.3% | 0.4% | 1.2% | 30.9% | |
| 2003 | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.1% | 1.2% | 1.2% | 29.8% | ||
| 2002 | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.9% | 1.1% | 63.7% | |||
| 2001 | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.1% | |||||
| 2000 | 0.1% | 0.3% | 1.6% | 1.2% | 0.9% | 48.6% | ||
| 1999 | 0.1% | 0.4% | 1.1% | 0.4% | 0.8% | 74.7% | 39.6% | |
| 1998 | 0.2% | 0.4% | 2.2% | 1.2% | 1% | 35.3% | ||
| 1997 | 0.1% | 0.3% | 1.6% | 0.9% | ||||
| 1996 | 0.2% | 0.3% | 2% | 0.8% | 79.9% | |||
| 1995 | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1% | 2% | 0.9% | 31.9% | ||
| 1994 | 0.3% | 0.4% | 2% | 0.9% | 34.2% | |||
| 1993 | 0.1% | 0.3% | 1.9% | 2.1% | 2% | 0.8% | 89.3% | |
| 1992 | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.8% | |||||
| 1991 | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.8% | ||||
| 1990 | 0.2% | 0.9% | 1.4% | 0.7% | 93.4% | |||
| 1989 | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.7% | |||||
| 1988 | 0.2% | 0.7% | ||||||
| 1987 | 0.1% | 1.3% | 0.4% | 0.8% | 93.9% | 31.7% | ||
| 1986 | 0.3% | 0.6% | 0.8% | |||||
| 1985 | 0.2% | 1.3% | 0.9% | |||||
| 1984 | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.8% | 97.8% | ||||
| 1983 | 0.2% | 0.4% | 1.6% | 0.9% | ||||
| 1982 | 0.2% | 0.2% | 1% | |||||
| 1981 | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.8% | 99.7% | ||||
| 1980 | 0.1% | 0.5% | 1.8% | 0.7% | ||||
| 1979 | 0.1% | 0.9% | 0.9% | |||||
| 1978 | 0.1% | 1.1% | 0.8% | |||||
| 1977 | 0.3% | 1% | 0.9% | |||||
| 1976 | 0.1% | 0.9% | ||||||
| 1975 | 0.2% | 1% | ||||||
| 1974 | 0.3% | 1.1% | ||||||
| 1973 | 0.1% | 1.1% | ||||||
| 1972 | 0.4% | 1.1% | ||||||
| 1971 | 0.1% | 1.2% | ||||||
| 1970 | 0.2% | 1.4% | ||||||
| 1969 | 0.3% | 1% | ||||||
| 1968 | 0.2% | 1.2% | ||||||
| 1967 | 1.5% | |||||||
| 1966 | 1.7% | |||||||
| 1965 | 1.8% | |||||||
| 1964 | 2% | |||||||
| 1963 | 2.1% |
World Bank definition
Poverty headcount ratio at $4.20 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population)
Poverty headcount ratio at $4.20 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $4.20 a day at 2021 international prices.
Text published by the World Bank for indicator SI.POV.LMIC, reproduced unchanged.
The same indicator across Europe & Central Asia
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