U.S. Poverty Rate

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U.S. poverty rate for 2023 was 2.00%, a 0.2% decline from 2022.

U.S. poverty rate for 2022 was 2.20%, a 1.2% increase from 2021.
U.S. poverty rate for 2021 was 1.00%, a 0.5% decline from 2020.
U.S. poverty rate for 2020 was 1.50%, a 0.2% decline 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.