poverty rate for 2022 was 54.30%, a 0.9% decline from 2021.
poverty rate for 2021 was 55.20%, a 1.9% decline from 2020.
poverty rate for 2020 was 57.10%, a 1% increase from 2019.
poverty rate for 2019 was 56.10%, a 1.4% decline 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.