China poverty rate for 2021 was 21.00%, a 8.5% decline from 2020.
China poverty rate for 2020 was 29.50%, a 0.6% increase from 2019.
China poverty rate for 2019 was 28.90%, a 3.3% decline from 2018.
China poverty rate for 2018 was 32.20%, a 4.1% decline from 2017.
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. The full historical dataset is available for download here: China Poverty Rate Datasets (CSV).