Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Moldova

33.6% of people in Moldova lived below the national poverty line in 2024. The value for 2024 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2019.

Measure: Poverty rate at national poverty lines Unit: % of population Data: 2019 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Moldova, 2024 33.6% % of population
Change from 2023 +2.0percentage points 2023: 31.6%

Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Moldova 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 2024
Period Moldova
2024 33.6%
2023 31.6%
2022 31.1%
2021 24.5%
2020 26.8%
2019 25.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +2.0 percentage points from 31.6% in 2023.
  • Since 2019, when it was 25.2%, the figure has changed by +8.4 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 2024 for Moldova
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