South Asia poverty rate for 2023 was 80.10%, a 2% decline from 2022.
South Asia poverty rate for 2022 was 82.10%, a 1.7% decline from 2021.
South Asia poverty rate for 2021 was 83.80%, a 1.4% decline from 2020.
South Asia poverty rate for 2020 was 85.20%, a 4.8% 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.