List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty
Countries by percent of population living below $3.10 in 2011 PPP dollars. Based on World Bank API data. Many data points are old. See tables below for dates.
Countries by percentage of population living in poverty.
Methodology
"Poverty" is defined as an economic condition of lacking both money and basic necessities needed to successfully live, such as food, water, education, healthcare, and shelter. There are many working definitions of "poverty," with considerable debate on how to best define the term.
Lack of income security, economic stability and the predictability of one's continued means to meet basic needs all serve as absolute indicators of poverty. Poverty may therefore also be defined as the economic condition of lacking predictable and stable means of meeting basic life needs.
Critics point out that this methodology has flaws. With 43% of the world population owning a smart phone, an additional 45% owning a cell phone, and only 12% of the world population without a phone in his or her pocket, "poverty" definitions are questionable at best.[1] When statistics regarding populations with incomes of $1-$5 per day are touted, the obvious questions are what cell phone plan are they using and why are these populations included in any definition of "poverty"?
The first table lists countries by the percentage of their population with an income of less than $1.90 and less than $3.10 US dollars per day in 2011 dollars at Purchasing power parity. The data is from the most recent year available from the World Bank API.
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. National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates from household surveys.
Definitions of the poverty line vary considerably among nations. For example, rich nations generally employ more generous standards of poverty than poor nations. Even among rich nations, the standards differ greatly. Thus, the numbers are not comparable among countries. Even when nations do use the same method, some issues may remain.[2]
Only countries for which sourced data are available are listed. Data for countries, including Libya, remain unavailable. It's usually accepted, that one third (33.3%) of the population in Libya live below the poverty line.[3]
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See also
General:
References
- ↑ ""Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-05-21. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
- ↑ ""Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-04-30. Retrieved 2014-01-10." Eurostat 2010
- ↑ Libya Economy 2013 CIA factbook Archived November 25, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "World Development Indicators". World Bank. 2015-12-04. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
- ↑ "World Development Indicators". World Bank. 2015-12-04. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
- ↑ http://data.worldbank.org.cn/indicator/SI.POV.DDAY?view=chart&year_high_desc=false
- ↑ http://www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/suomessa-koyhyysrajan-alla-elaa-13-7-prosenttia/UmMLpRj2
- ↑ http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/pubdocs/publicdoc/2015/10/109701443800596288/PRN03-Oct2015-TwinGoals.pdf
- ↑ "World Databank". Databank.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
- ↑ Population below poverty line, The World Factbook, CIA, accessed on July 25, 2012.
- ↑ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2046.html
- ↑ http://www.telam.com.ar/notas/201609/164862-pobreza-indec-cifras-estadisticas.html
- ↑ http://www.en.banglanews24.com/fullnews/bn/113749.html
- ↑ Based on percent of population living on less than the international standard of $2/day (2009 est.).
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 "Panorama social de América Latina 2010" (PDF). ECLAC (in Spanish). Retrieved December 1, 2010.
- ↑ This figure is the Low Income Cut-Off (LICO), a calculation that results in higher figures than found in many comparable economies; Canada does not have an official poverty line (2008).
- ↑ Basic Needs Poverty Measure, an absolute poverty measure calculated by the Fraser Institute. (See related article, Poverty in Canada.)
- ↑ "La CASEN 2011, precisiones de la CEPAL" (PDF) (in Spanish). United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. 1 September 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2012. Note: The figure is on page 5 of the report.
- ↑ In 2011, China set a new poverty line at RMB 2300 (approximately US $400; this new standard is significantly higher than the line set in 2009, and as a result, 128 million Chinese are now considered below the poverty line (2011).
- ↑ Urban areas.
- ↑ http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-07-24/news/40771743_1_poverty-line-tendulkar-methodology-poverty-rates
- ↑ http://www.istat.it/en/archive/164876
- ↑
- ↑ Israel's poverty line is $7.30 per person per day (2012).
- ↑ About one-third of Libyans live at or below the national poverty line.
- ↑ "Poverty Line" (PDF). Stat.gov.mk. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
- ↑ The UNDP's 2005 Human Development Report indicated that 34.9% of the population live on $1 per day and 55.8% live on $2 per day (2005 est.).
- ↑ Poverty data: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2007/100577.htm Norway. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007], US Department of State; Population: Norway - CIA The World Factbook.
- ↑ "Below the line: Increasing poverty affecting 40% population, says report". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ↑ Structure of money incomes and share of expenditures in money incomes of population (Russian).
- ↑ "المملكة الأقل عربياً في نسبة الفقر.. والعاشرة عالمياً في تدني نسبة الفقراء". Retrieved 2016-06-30.
- ↑ "El 21,1% de la población española, por debajo del umbral de pobreza". cadenaser.com. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
- ↑ "Newsletter-ang.pub" (PDF). Investintunisia.tn. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
- ↑ "::Welcome to Turkish Statistical Institute(TurkStat)'s Web Pages::". TurkStat. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
- ↑ http://www.ua.undp.org/content/ukraine/en/home/countryinfo/
- ↑ Fatema Al Kamali and Hamda Al Bastaki. "Any poor Emiratis out there? - The National". Thenational.ae. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
- ↑ "Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2013". US Census.
- ↑ http://www.diariotextual.com/economia/item/1764-cepal-argentina-es-el-pa%C3%ADs-con-menos-pobreza-de-am%C3%A9rica-latina.html.
External links
- Global Distribution of Poverty Global poverty datasets and map collection
- http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/Population-below-poverty-line
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