Poverty rate at $4.20 a day (2021 PPP)
The share of people living on less than $4.20 a day at 2021 international prices, the World Bank's poverty line for lower-middle-income countries.
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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The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
% 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 | 18.2% | 1.2% | – | – |
| 2023 | 19.3% | 1.4% | – | 16.1% |
| 2022 | 20.5% | 1.5% | 0.5% | 23.9% |
| 2021 | 21.4% | 0.6% | 0.3% | – |
| 2020 | 22.1% | 0.5% | 1.7% | – |
| 2019 | – | 1.2% | 3.0% | – |
| 2018 | 22.3% | 1.3% | 5.5% | – |
| 2017 | 23.6% | 1.5% | 7.5% | – |
| 2016 | 24.9% | 1.3% | 8.4% | – |
| 2015 | 26.3% | 1.4% | 10.6% | – |
| 2014 | 27.9% | 1.5% | 13.7% | – |
| 2013 | 29.3% | 1.3% | 16.7% | – |
| 2012 | 32.0% | 1.3% | 25.1% | – |
| 2011 | 33.6% | 1.3% | 29.1% | 57.7% |
| 2010 | 35.8% | 1.3% | 34.9% | – |
| 2009 | 38.1% | 1.1% | – | 66.1% |
| 2008 | 39.3% | 1.3% | 41.3% | – |
| 2007 | 40.5% | 1.2% | – | – |
| 2006 | 42.2% | 1.2% | – | – |
| 2005 | 43.7% | 1.2% | 50.5% | – |
| 2004 | 45.4% | 1.2% | – | 74.5% |
| 2003 | 47.2% | 1.2% | – | – |
| 2002 | 48.6% | 1.1% | 63.7% | – |
| 2001 | 49.9% | 1.1% | – | – |
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 (83.9%) and the lowest Slovenia (0.0%).
- Half of the countries are above 2.0% and half below.
- From 2020 to 2021 the value rose in 0 countries and fell in 3.
- The figure for the world was 21.4% in 2021, against 24.9% in 2016 (−3.5 percentage points).
About this measure
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 83.9%
- 2 Madagascar 83.9%
- 3 Niger 79.7%
- 4 Kenya 67.9%
- 5 Burkina Faso 64.6%
- 6 Ethiopia 63.7%
- 7 Guinea-Bissau 62.1%
- 8 Mali 59.5%
- 9 Togo 55.6%
- 10 Benin 50.0%
- 11 Côte d'Ivoire 41.6%
- 12 Cameroon 41.3%
- 13 Senegal 37.3%
- 14 Kosovo 28.4%
- 15 Indonesia 24.2%
- 16 Kyrgyzstan 23.3%
- 17 Tajikistan 22.6%
- 18 Georgia 22.3%
- 19 Philippines 21.3%
- 20 Colombia 18.4%
- 21 Brazil 11.5%
- 22 Peru 11.2%
- 23 Ecuador 10.8%
- 24 Iran 10.1%
- 25 El Salvador 9.8%
- 26 Uzbekistan 9.1%
- 27 Armenia 8.8%
- 28 Egypt 7.1%
- 29 Panama 6.7%
- 30 Paraguay 5.6%
- 31 Bolivia 5.5%
- 32 Jamaica 5.1%
- 33 Costa Rica 4.1%
- 34 Montenegro 4.0%
- 35 Dominican Republic 3.7%
- 36 Argentina 3.3%
- 37 Romania 3.0%
- 38 Serbia 2.7%
- 39 Tunisia 2.4%
- 40 Türkiye 2.3%
- 41 Bulgaria 2.0%
- 42 Tonga 1.8%
- 43 Greece 1.2%
- 44 Israel 1.1%
- 45 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.0%
- 46 Italy 1.0%
- 47 Spain 0.9%
- 48 Sweden 0.9%
- 49 Latvia 0.8%
- 50 Slovakia 0.8%
- 51 Germany 0.7%
- 52 United States 0.6%
- 53 Austria 0.5%
- 54 Thailand 0.5%
- 55 United Kingdom 0.5%
- 56 Uruguay 0.5%
- 57 Croatia 0.4%
- 58 Estonia 0.4%
- 59 Lithuania 0.4%
- 60 Portugal 0.4%
- 61 Russia 0.4%
- 62 Canada 0.3%
- 63 China 0.3%
- 64 Kazakhstan 0.3%
- 65 Moldova 0.3%
- 66 Denmark 0.2%
- 67 France 0.2%
- 68 Ireland 0.2%
- 69 Malta 0.2%
- 70 Norway 0.2%
- 71 Poland 0.2%
- 72 South Korea 0.2%
- 73 Belgium 0.1%
- 74 Cyprus 0.1%
- 75 Czechia 0.1%
- 76 Luxembourg 0.1%
- 77 Malaysia 0.1%
- 78 Netherlands 0.1%
- 79 Switzerland 0.1%
- 80 Finland 0.0%
- 81 Slovenia 0.0%
- East Asia and Pacific 6.5%
- Europe and Central Asia 1.6%
- Latin America and Caribbean 10.8%
- North America 0.5%
- South Asia 29.5%
- Sub-Saharan Africa 64.1%
- World 21.4%
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Grey: no value for 2021. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.