Colombia Poverty Rate

Colombia poverty rate for 2023 was 37.60%, a 2.6% decline from 2022.
  • Colombia poverty rate for 2022 was 40.20%, a 3.8% decline from 2021.
  • Colombia poverty rate for 2021 was 44.00%, a 4% decline from 2020.
  • Colombia poverty rate for 2020 was 48.00%, a 7.7% increase from 2019.
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.