Extreme poverty rate at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP)
The share of people living on less than $3.00 a day at 2021 international prices, the World Bank's international extreme poverty line.
81 countries have a value for 2021, the latest period with data for most countries. Some countries have newer figures; see the ranking below for each country's latest year.
Trend 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.
| Period | World | United States | China | India |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10.1% | 1.1% | – | – |
| 2023 | 10.5% | 1.2% | – | 2.6% |
| 2022 | 10.9% | 1.4% | 0.0% | 5.3% |
| 2021 | 11.3% | 0.3% | 0.0% | – |
| 2020 | 11.4% | 0.4% | 0.0% | – |
| 2019 | – | 1.0% | 0.0% | – |
| 2018 | 11.1% | 1.1% | 0.7% | – |
| 2017 | 11.8% | 1.3% | 1.6% | – |
| 2016 | 12.6% | 1.2% | 2.1% | – |
| 2015 | 13.4% | 1.2% | 2.9% | – |
| 2014 | 14.5% | 1.3% | 4.6% | – |
| 2013 | 15.5% | 1.1% | 6.0% | – |
| 2012 | 17.8% | 1.1% | 12.9% | – |
| 2011 | 19.1% | 1.1% | 15.3% | 27.1% |
| 2010 | 21.0% | 1.1% | 20.6% | – |
| 2009 | 23.1% | 1.0% | – | 34.6% |
| 2008 | 24.1% | 1.1% | 26.1% | – |
| 2007 | 25.3% | 1.0% | – | – |
| 2006 | 27.0% | 1.1% | – | – |
| 2005 | 28.3% | 1.0% | 32.9% | – |
| 2004 | 30.3% | 1.1% | – | 46.4% |
| 2003 | 32.2% | 1.0% | – | – |
| 2002 | 33.7% | 0.9% | 47.8% | – |
| 2001 | 35.3% | 0.9% | – | – |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- Among the 81 countries with a value for 2021, the highest is Central African Republic (71.6%) and the lowest Thailand (0.0%).
- Half of the countries are above 0.9% and half below.
- From 2020 to 2021 the value rose in 2 countries and fell in 1.
- The figure for the world was 11.3% in 2021, against 12.6% in 2016 (−1.3 percentage points).
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Source and dates
All countries in 2021 Every value is for 2021, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Central African Republic 71.6%
- 2 Madagascar 69.2%
- 3 Niger 60.5%
- 4 Kenya 46.4%
- 5 Burkina Faso 42.1%
- 6 Guinea-Bissau 39.9%
- 7 Ethiopia 38.6%
- 8 Mali 36.1%
- 9 Togo 34.7%
- 10 Benin 27.2%
- 11 Cameroon 26.7%
- 12 Kosovo 25.0%
- 13 Côte d'Ivoire 20.8%
- 14 Senegal 17.9%
- 15 Colombia 11.2%
- 16 Georgia 10.8%
- 17 Tajikistan 9.1%
- 18 Indonesia 8.6%
- 19 Philippines 8.1%
- 20 Brazil 7.5%
- 21 Kyrgyzstan 5.6%
- 22 Ecuador 5.3%
- 23 Peru 5.2%
- 24 El Salvador 5.1%
- 25 Uzbekistan 4.4%
- 26 Iran 3.7%
- 27 Panama 3.3%
- 28 Bolivia 3.1%
- 29 Montenegro 2.5%
- 30 Costa Rica 2.2%
- 31 Armenia 2.1%
- 32 Romania 2.0%
- 33 Paraguay 1.9%
- 34 Serbia 1.7%
- 35 Argentina 1.4%
- 36 Egypt 1.4%
- 37 Jamaica 1.4%
- 38 Dominican Republic 1.3%
- 39 Bulgaria 1.2%
- 40 Italy 0.9%
- 41 Türkiye 0.9%
- 42 Greece 0.7%
- 43 Spain 0.7%
- 44 Tunisia 0.7%
- 45 Germany 0.6%
- 46 Israel 0.6%
- 47 Sweden 0.6%
- 48 Austria 0.5%
- 49 Latvia 0.5%
- 50 Tonga 0.4%
- 51 United Kingdom 0.4%
- 52 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.3%
- 53 Croatia 0.3%
- 54 Estonia 0.3%
- 55 Lithuania 0.3%
- 56 Portugal 0.3%
- 57 Slovakia 0.3%
- 58 United States 0.3%
- 59 Canada 0.2%
- 60 Denmark 0.2%
- 61 Moldova 0.2%
- 62 Norway 0.2%
- 63 Russia 0.2%
- 64 Uruguay 0.2%
- 65 Czechia 0.1%
- 66 France 0.1%
- 67 Ireland 0.1%
- 68 Luxembourg 0.1%
- 69 Malta 0.1%
- 70 Netherlands 0.1%
- 71 Poland 0.1%
- 72 South Korea 0.1%
- 73 Belgium 0.0%
- 74 China 0.0%
- 75 Cyprus 0.0%
- 76 Finland 0.0%
- 77 Kazakhstan 0.0%
- 78 Malaysia 0.0%
- 79 Slovenia 0.0%
- 80 Switzerland 0.0%
- 81 Thailand 0.0%
- East Asia and Pacific 2.6%
- Europe and Central Asia 0.8%
- Latin America and Caribbean 6.2%
- North America 0.3%
- South Asia 7.9%
- Sub-Saharan Africa 46.2%
- World 11.3%
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Grey: no value for 2021. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.