World poverty rate for 2023 was 47.00%, a 1% decline from 2022.
World poverty rate for 2022 was 48.00%, a 0.6% decline from 2021.
World poverty rate for 2021 was 48.60%, a 1.8% decline from 2020.
World poverty rate for 2020 was 50.40%, a 4.1% 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. The full historical dataset is available for download here: World Poverty Rate | Historical Data | 1981 - 2023.