Social & Inequality
Poverty (national line)
SI.POV.NAHC 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: 20.1% for Italy in 2021, over a series running from 2003 to 2021 and 7 countries compared, from the highest (South Sudan, 82.3%) to the lowest (China, 0%).
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Year by year values
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| Italy | Spain | Netherlands | China | South Sudan | Sudan | Somalia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 20.2% | 55.4% | |||||
| 2021 | 20.1% | 20.4% | 14.5% | ||||
| 2020 | 20.1% | 21.7% | 14.4% | 0% | |||
| 2019 | 20% | 21% | 13.4% | 0.6% | |||
| 2018 | 20.1% | 20.7% | 13.2% | 1.7% | |||
| 2017 | 20.3% | 21.5% | 13.3% | 3.1% | |||
| 2016 | 20.3% | 21.6% | 13.2% | 4.5% | 82.3% | ||
| 2015 | 20.6% | 22.3% | 12.7% | 5.7% | |||
| 2014 | 19.9% | 22.1% | 7.2% | ||||
| 2013 | 19.4% | 22.2% | 8.5% | ||||
| 2012 | 19.3% | 20.4% | 10.2% | ||||
| 2011 | 19.5% | 20.8% | 12.7% | ||||
| 2010 | 19.8% | 20.6% | 17.2% | ||||
| 2009 | 18.7% | 20.7% | 46.5% | ||||
| 2008 | 18.4% | 20.4% | |||||
| 2007 | 18.9% | 19.8% | |||||
| 2006 | 19.5% | 19.7% | |||||
| 2005 | 19.3% | 20.3% | 30.2% | ||||
| 2004 | 19.2% | 20.1% | |||||
| 2003 | 18.9% | 20.1% | |||||
| 2000 | 49.8% |
World Bank definition
Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population)
National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s). National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates from household surveys. For economies for which the data are from EU-SILC, the reported year is the income reference year, which is the year before the survey year.
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