U.S. poverty rate for 2022 was 2.00%, a 1% increase from 2021.
U.S. poverty rate for 2021 was 1.00%, a 0.2% decline from 2020.
U.S. poverty rate for 2020 was 1.20%, a 0.5% decline from 2019.
U.S. poverty rate for 2019 was 1.70%, a 0% increase from 2018.
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.