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See the latest data on poverty rates by country, measured by different methods and baselines. Learn about the causes, effects, and solutions of poverty around the world.
About 692 million people globally were in this situation in 2024. [8] The second table lists countries by the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line —the poverty line deemed appropriate for a country by its authorities.
Among the globe's nations, some stand out with remarkably low poverty rates. China leads the pack with the lowest poverty rate globally, standing at a mere 0.6%. The second-lowest, Ukraine, has a poverty rate of just 1.1%. Sri Lanka, with a rate of 4.1%, occupies the third spot.
20 wrz 2024 · The World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) reports revised estimates of global and regional poverty up to 2022 and nowcasts up to 2024. See the trends, revisions, and new measures of shared prosperity and inequality.
The report assesses global progress and challenges toward ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. It projects that 622 million people will live in extreme poverty in 2030, and that climate change poses a fundamental risk to poverty reduction.
The poverty line is taken as half the median household income of the total population. The population affected is broken down by broad age groups: child poverty (0-17 years old), working-age poverty (18-65 years old) and elderly poverty (66 year-olds or more).
The 2024 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) uses the most recent comparable data available for 112 countries—21 low-income countries, 87 middle-income countries and 4 high-income countries.
