Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Türkiye

13.0% of people in Türkiye lived below the national poverty line in 2024. The value for 2024 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 2005.

Measure: Poverty rate at national poverty lines Unit: % of population Data: 2005 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Türkiye, 2024 13.0% % of population
Change from 2023 −0.6percentage points 2023: 13.6%
Median of OECD (38 countries), 2024 20.3% Middle value of 5 countries

Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Türkiye 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), 2005 to 2024
Period Türkiye
2024 13.0%
2023 13.6%
2022 13.5%
2021 14.4%
2020 14.4%
2019 15.0%
2018 14.4%
2017 13.9%
2016 13.5%
2015 14.3%
2014 14.7%
2013 15.0%
2012 15.0%
2011 16.3%
2010 16.1%
2009 16.9%
2008 17.1%
2007 16.7%
2006 16.3%
2005 18.6%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.6 percentage points from 13.6% in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 14.7%, the figure has changed by −1.7 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
2005 to 2024 for Türkiye
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