Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Gambia

53.4% of people in Gambia lived below the national poverty line in 2020.

Measure: Poverty rate at national poverty lines Unit: % of population Data: 2010 to 2020 Source: World Bank
Gambia, 2020 53.4% % of population
Change from 2015 +4.8percentage points 2015: 48.6%

Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Gambia over time

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% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Poverty rate at national poverty lines (% of population), 2010 to 2020
Period Gambia
2020 53.4%
2015 48.6%
2010 48.1%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • The previous available figure was 48.6% in 2015, a change of +4.8 percentage points.
  • Since 2010, when it was 48.1%, the figure has changed by +5.3 percentage points.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SI.POV.NAHC · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2010 to 2020 for Gambia
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources