Poverty rate at $8.30 a day (2021 PPP) by country, 2021
The share of people living on less than $8.30 a day at 2021 international prices, the World Bank's poverty line for upper-middle-income countries.
81 places ranked for 2021. Highest: Madagascar (96.6%). Lowest: Slovenia (0.1%). The median is 14.2%.
Highest 10
- 1. Madagascar 96.6%
- 2. Central African Republic 96.1%
- 3. Niger 96.1%
- 4. Ethiopia 93.5%
- 5. Guinea-Bissau 91.4%
- 6. Kenya 91.3%
- 7. Burkina Faso 90.4%
- 8. Mali 88.6%
- 9. Togo 87.0%
- 10. Benin 86.5%
Lowest 10
- 81. Slovenia 0.1%
- 80. Cyprus 0.1%
- 79. Switzerland 0.2%
- 78. Finland 0.2%
- 77. Netherlands 0.3%
- 76. Ireland 0.3%
- 75. Denmark 0.3%
- 74. Czechia 0.3%
- 73. Belgium 0.3%
- 72. Norway 0.4%
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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 Madagascar (96.6%) and the lowest Slovenia (0.1%).
- Half of the countries are above 14.2% and half below.
- The figure for the world was 48.7% in 2021, against 52.4% in 2016 (−3.7 percentage points).
Full ranking
| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Madagascar | 96.6% | 2021 | |
| 2 | Central African Republic | 96.1% | 2021 | |
| 3 | Niger | 96.1% | 2021 | |
| 4 | Ethiopia | 93.5% | 2021 | |
| 5 | Guinea-Bissau | 91.4% | 2021 | |
| 6 | Kenya | 91.3% | 2021 | |
| 7 | Burkina Faso | 90.4% | 2021 | |
| 8 | Mali | 88.6% | 2021 | |
| 9 | Togo | 87.0% | 2021 | |
| 10 | Benin | 86.5% | 2021 | |
| 11 | Côte d'Ivoire | 80.9% | 2021 | |
| 12 | Senegal | 78.6% | 2021 | |
| 13 | Kyrgyzstan | 76.9% | 2021 | |
| 14 | Cameroon | 74.0% | 2021 | |
| 15 | Indonesia | 68.5% | 2021 | |
| 16 | Tajikistan | 64.9% | 2021 | |
| 17 | Georgia | 64.6% | 2021 | |
| 18 | Philippines | 62.3% | 2021 | |
| 19 | Egypt | 58.5% | 2021 | |
| 20 | Armenia | 57.0% | 2021 | |
| 21 | Kosovo | 47.0% | 2021 | |
| 22 | Colombia | 44.0% | 2021 | |
| 23 | Iran | 42.8% | 2021 | |
| 24 | Peru | 39.5% | 2021 | |
| 25 | Uzbekistan | 38.1% | 2021 | |
| 26 | Ecuador | 33.5% | 2021 | |
| 27 | El Salvador | 33.5% | 2021 | |
| 28 | Brazil | 30.6% | 2021 | |
| 29 | Paraguay | 27.0% | 2021 | |
| 30 | Tonga | 26.7% | 2021 | |
| 31 | Jamaica | 22.9% | 2021 | |
| 32 | Dominican Republic | 21.8% | 2021 | |
| 33 | Tunisia | 20.7% | 2021 | |
| 34 | China | 20.6% | 2021 | |
| 35 | Panama | 20.3% | 2021 | |
| 36 | Costa Rica | 17.8% | 2021 | |
| 37 | Bolivia | 17.1% | 2021 | |
| 38 | Moldova | 15.4% | 2021 | |
| 39 | Kazakhstan | 15.2% | 2021 | |
| 40 | Montenegro | 14.5% | 2021 | |
| 41 | Argentina | 14.2% | 2021 | |
| 42 | Thailand | 14.1% | 2021 | |
| 43 | Türkiye | 12.9% | 2021 | |
| 44 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 11.7% | 2021 | |
| 45 | Serbia | 9.4% | 2021 | |
| 46 | Romania | 7.7% | 2021 | |
| 47 | Uruguay | 6.7% | 2021 | |
| 48 | Bulgaria | 6.5% | 2021 | |
| 49 | Israel | 4.3% | 2021 | |
| 50 | Greece | 3.6% | 2021 | |
| 51 | Malaysia | 2.9% | 2021 | |
| 52 | Slovakia | 2.8% | 2021 | |
| 53 | Latvia | 2.4% | 2021 | |
| 54 | Russia | 2.2% | 2021 | |
| 55 | Spain | 2.2% | 2021 | |
| 56 | Croatia | 2.0% | 2021 | |
| 57 | Portugal | 1.9% | 2021 | |
| 58 | Italy | 1.7% | 2021 | |
| 59 | Sweden | 1.5% | 2021 | |
| 60 | Lithuania | 1.4% | 2021 | |
| 61 | Germany | 1.2% | 2021 | |
| 62 | Austria | 1.1% | 2021 | |
| 63 | Poland | 1.1% | 2021 | |
| 64 | United States | 1.1% | 2021 | |
| 65 | Estonia | 1.0% | 2021 | |
| 66 | United Kingdom | 0.9% | 2021 | |
| 67 | France | 0.6% | 2021 | |
| 68 | Luxembourg | 0.5% | 2021 | |
| 69 | Malta | 0.5% | 2021 | |
| 70 | South Korea | 0.5% | 2021 | |
| 71 | Canada | 0.4% | 2021 | |
| 72 | Norway | 0.4% | 2021 | |
| 73 | Belgium | 0.3% | 2021 | |
| 74 | Czechia | 0.3% | 2021 | |
| 75 | Denmark | 0.3% | 2021 | |
| 76 | Ireland | 0.3% | 2021 | |
| 77 | Netherlands | 0.3% | 2021 | |
| 78 | Finland | 0.2% | 2021 | |
| 79 | Switzerland | 0.2% | 2021 | |
| 80 | Cyprus | 0.1% | 2021 | |
| 81 | Slovenia | 0.1% | 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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