East Asia & Pacific poverty rate for 2023 was 30.30%, a 1.5% decline from 2022.
East Asia & Pacific poverty rate for 2022 was 31.80%, a 0.2% decline from 2021.
East Asia & Pacific poverty rate for 2021 was 32.00%, a 5.7% decline from 2020.
East Asia & Pacific poverty rate for 2020 was 37.70%, a 0.6% 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.