Extreme poverty rate by country, 2021
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 places ranked for 2021. Highest: Central African Republic (71.6%). Lowest: Thailand (0.0%). The median is 0.9%.
Highest 10
- 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%
Lowest 10
- 81. Thailand 0.0%
- 80. Switzerland 0.0%
- 79. Slovenia 0.0%
- 78. Malaysia 0.0%
- 77. Kazakhstan 0.0%
- 76. Finland 0.0%
- 75. Cyprus 0.0%
- 74. China 0.0%
- 73. Belgium 0.0%
- 72. South Korea 0.1%
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The chart shows the 40 highest values; the table lists all 81. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.
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).
Full ranking
| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Central African Republic | 71.6% | 2021 | |
| 2 | Madagascar | 69.2% | 2021 | |
| 3 | Niger | 60.5% | 2021 | |
| 4 | Kenya | 46.4% | 2021 | |
| 5 | Burkina Faso | 42.1% | 2021 | |
| 6 | Guinea-Bissau | 39.9% | 2021 | |
| 7 | Ethiopia | 38.6% | 2021 | |
| 8 | Mali | 36.1% | 2021 | |
| 9 | Togo | 34.7% | 2021 | |
| 10 | Benin | 27.2% | 2021 | |
| 11 | Cameroon | 26.7% | 2021 | |
| 12 | Kosovo | 25.0% | 2021 | |
| 13 | Côte d'Ivoire | 20.8% | 2021 | |
| 14 | Senegal | 17.9% | 2021 | |
| 15 | Colombia | 11.2% | 2021 | |
| 16 | Georgia | 10.8% | 2021 | |
| 17 | Tajikistan | 9.1% | 2021 | |
| 18 | Indonesia | 8.6% | 2021 | |
| 19 | Philippines | 8.1% | 2021 | |
| 20 | Brazil | 7.5% | 2021 | |
| 21 | Kyrgyzstan | 5.6% | 2021 | |
| 22 | Ecuador | 5.3% | 2021 | |
| 23 | Peru | 5.2% | 2021 | |
| 24 | El Salvador | 5.1% | 2021 | |
| 25 | Uzbekistan | 4.4% | 2021 | |
| 26 | Iran | 3.7% | 2021 | |
| 27 | Panama | 3.3% | 2021 | |
| 28 | Bolivia | 3.1% | 2021 | |
| 29 | Montenegro | 2.5% | 2021 | |
| 30 | Costa Rica | 2.2% | 2021 | |
| 31 | Armenia | 2.1% | 2021 | |
| 32 | Romania | 2.0% | 2021 | |
| 33 | Paraguay | 1.9% | 2021 | |
| 34 | Serbia | 1.7% | 2021 | |
| 35 | Argentina | 1.4% | 2021 | |
| 36 | Egypt | 1.4% | 2021 | |
| 37 | Jamaica | 1.4% | 2021 | |
| 38 | Dominican Republic | 1.3% | 2021 | |
| 39 | Bulgaria | 1.2% | 2021 | |
| 40 | Italy | 0.9% | 2021 | |
| 41 | Türkiye | 0.9% | 2021 | |
| 42 | Greece | 0.7% | 2021 | |
| 43 | Spain | 0.7% | 2021 | |
| 44 | Tunisia | 0.7% | 2021 | |
| 45 | Germany | 0.6% | 2021 | |
| 46 | Israel | 0.6% | 2021 | |
| 47 | Sweden | 0.6% | 2021 | |
| 48 | Austria | 0.5% | 2021 | |
| 49 | Latvia | 0.5% | 2021 | |
| 50 | Tonga | 0.4% | 2021 | |
| 51 | United Kingdom | 0.4% | 2021 | |
| 52 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.3% | 2021 | |
| 53 | Croatia | 0.3% | 2021 | |
| 54 | Estonia | 0.3% | 2021 | |
| 55 | Lithuania | 0.3% | 2021 | |
| 56 | Portugal | 0.3% | 2021 | |
| 57 | Slovakia | 0.3% | 2021 | |
| 58 | United States | 0.3% | 2021 | |
| 59 | Canada | 0.2% | 2021 | |
| 60 | Denmark | 0.2% | 2021 | |
| 61 | Moldova | 0.2% | 2021 | |
| 62 | Norway | 0.2% | 2021 | |
| 63 | Russia | 0.2% | 2021 | |
| 64 | Uruguay | 0.2% | 2021 | |
| 65 | Czechia | 0.1% | 2021 | |
| 66 | France | 0.1% | 2021 | |
| 67 | Ireland | 0.1% | 2021 | |
| 68 | Luxembourg | 0.1% | 2021 | |
| 69 | Malta | 0.1% | 2021 | |
| 70 | Netherlands | 0.1% | 2021 | |
| 71 | Poland | 0.1% | 2021 | |
| 72 | South Korea | 0.1% | 2021 | |
| 73 | Belgium | 0.0% | 2021 | |
| 74 | China | 0.0% | 2021 | |
| 75 | Cyprus | 0.0% | 2021 | |
| 76 | Finland | 0.0% | 2021 | |
| 77 | Kazakhstan | 0.0% | 2021 | |
| 78 | Malaysia | 0.0% | 2021 | |
| 79 | Slovenia | 0.0% | 2021 | |
| 80 | Switzerland | 0.0% | 2021 | |
| 81 | Thailand | 0.0% | 2021 |
Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.
How this ranking works
Every country is ranked on its value for 2021, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2021 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by World Bank; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.
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