Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Kiribati

5.5% of people in Kiribati lived below the national poverty line in 2023.

Measure: Poverty rate at national poverty lines Unit: % of population Data: 2019 to 2023 Source: World Bank
Kiribati, 2023 5.5% % of population
Change from 2019 −16.4percentage points 2019: 21.9%

Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Kiribati 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), 2019 to 2023
Period Kiribati
2023 5.5%
2019 21.9%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • The previous available figure was 21.9% in 2019, a change of −16.4 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
2019 to 2023 for Kiribati
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