Malawi poverty rate for 2019 was 97.30%, a 0.5% increase from 2016.
Malawi poverty rate for 2016 was 96.80%, a 0.6% increase from 2010.
Malawi poverty rate for 2010 was 96.20%, a 1% decline from 2004.
Malawi poverty rate for 2004 was 97.20%, a 3.4% increase from 1997.
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.