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Poverty < $3.65/day

SI.POV.LMIC ยท %

Annual series published by the World Bank, compared across Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China, South Sudan, Sudan, Pakistan. 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, Italy
1%2023
Period covered
1977 - 202338 annual values
Highest of the compared countries
88%South Sudan, 2016
Lowest of the compared countries
0.1%Netherlands, 2021

8 countries compared, that is the maximum. Remove one to add another.

025507510019631978199420092024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • South Sudan88%2016
  • Pakistan47.9%2024
  • Sudan26%2014
  • United States1.2%2024
  • Italy1%2023
  • Spain1%2023
  • 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.

Annual values by country
ItalySpainNetherlandsUnited StatesChinaSouth SudanSudanPakistan
20241.2%47.9%
20231%1%1.4%
20220.7%1%1.5%0.5%
20211%0.9%0.1%0.6%0.3%
20201.2%1.5%0.1%0.5%1.7%
20191.3%1.2%0.1%1.2%3%
20182.1%1.2%0.2%1.3%5.5%44.7%
20171.9%1.1%0.3%1.5%7.5%
20162.3%1.7%0.2%1.3%8.4%88%
20152.6%1.5%0.1%1.4%10.6%44.8%
20141.8%1.5%0.2%1.5%13.7%26%
20132%1.7%0.1%1.3%16.7%49.3%
20121.8%1.6%0.1%1.3%25.1%
20111.5%1.7%0.2%1.3%29.1%55.9%
20101.6%1.1%0.1%1.3%34.9%57.2%
20091.3%1.1%0.2%1.1%59.2%27.6%
20081.1%0.9%0.2%1.3%41.3%
20071.1%0.7%0.1%1.2%64.7%
20060.9%1.1%0.1%1.2%
20051%1.1%0.2%1.2%50.5%69%

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

Source: World Bank, World Bank Open Data Annual series, fetched server side and cached for 24 hours. The World Bank is never called from your browser.