Lesotho Poverty Rate 1986-2025

Lesotho poverty rate for 2017 was 81.00%, a 14.1% decline from 2002.
  • Lesotho poverty rate for 2002 was 95.10%, a 12.3% increase from 1994.
  • Lesotho poverty rate for 1994 was 82.80%, a 6.2% decline from 1986.
  • Lesotho poverty rate for 1986 was 89.00%, a 89% increase from .
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.