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Countries with the highest poverty rate worldwide 2019

Published by Statista Research Department, Oct 26, 2022
All the 20 countries with the highest poverty rates in the world are located in Africa. Somalia and Malawi were to two countries with the highest share of people living on less than 2.15 U.S. dollars a day when adjusting for 2017 Purchasing Power Parities (PPP), both at over 70 percent.

20 countries with the highest share of the population living on less than 2.15 U.S. dollars a day in 2019 (in 2017 PPP)

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Release date

September 2022

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

1990 to 2019

Number of respondents

169 countries

Supplementary notes

The World Bank's poverty data is based on more than 2,000 household surveys in 169 countries. For more information on methodology, please visit the source page.

Most recent value is included in brackets. Please note that countries for which the most recent value was from 2013 or earlier have been omitted. Numbers were also unavailable for a range of countries.

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