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Poverty rate ($2.15/day) by country — world rankings

Ranking 153 countries with data.

Poverty rate ($2.15/day)

Rank Country Value
1 Dem. Rep. Congo 85.3% (2020)
2 Mozambique 81.4% (2022)
3 S. Sudan 76.5% (2016)
4 Malawi 75.4% (2019)
5 Burundi 74.2% (2020)
6 Zambia 71.7% (2022)
7 Central African Rep. 71.6% (2021)
8 Madagascar 69.2% (2021)
9 Niger 60.5% (2021)
10 Uganda 59.8% (2019)
11 Papua New Guinea 52.2% (2009)
12 Tanzania 51.3% (2018)
13 Zimbabwe 49.2% (2019)
14 Kenya 45.5% (2022)
15 eSwatini 44.5% (2016)
16 Timor-Leste 44.0% (2014)
17 Burkina Faso 42.1% (2021)
18 Lesotho 41.9% (2017)
19 Nigeria 41.8% (2022)
20 Sierra Leone 41.5% (2018)
21 Haiti 40.4% (2012)
22 Solomon Is. 40.3% (2012)
23 Guinea-Bissau 39.9% (2021)
24 Chad 39.5% (2022)
25 Angola 39.3% (2018)
26 Congo 39.2% (2011)
27 Ghana 39.0% (2016)
28 Ethiopia 38.6% (2021)
29 Rwanda 38.6% (2023)
30 Mali 36.1% (2021)
31 Turkmenistan 35.1% (1998)
32 Togo 34.7% (2021)
33 Liberia 33.6% (2016)
34 Yemen 33.3% (2014)
35 Benin 27.2% (2021)
36 Cameroon 26.7% (2021)
37 Djibouti 25.4% (2017)
38 Pakistan 23.0% (2024)
39 Namibia 22.9% (2015)
40 Gambia 22.0% (2020)
41 Botswana 21.4% (2015)
42 Côte d'Ivoire 20.8% (2021)
43 Vanuatu 19.5% (2019)
44 Syria 18.0% (2022)
45 Senegal 17.9% (2021)
46 South Africa 17.4% (2022)
47 Honduras 15.7% (2024)
48 Guyana 13.0% (1998)
49 Guinea 11.7% (2018)
50 Myanmar 10.3% (2017)
51 Mauritania 10.2% (2019)
52 Sudan 10.1% (2014)
53 Guatemala 9.7% (2023)
54 Venezuela 9.7% (2006)
55 Eq. Guinea 8.8% (2022)
56 Colombia 8.5% (2024)
57 Laos 7.1% (2024)
58 Nicaragua 6.6% (2014)
59 Tajikistan 6.1% (2024)
60 Bangladesh 5.9% (2022)
61 Lebanon 5.8% (2022)
62 India 5.3% (2022)
63 Philippines 5.3% (2023)
64 Peru 5.1% (2024)
65 Fiji 4.7% (2019)
66 El Salvador 4.6% (2023)
67 Georgia 4.2% (2024)
68 Indonesia 4.0% (2025)
69 Macedonia 3.9% (2019)
70 Gabon 3.8% (2017)
71 Morocco 3.7% (2013)
72 Ecuador 3.4% (2025)
73 Trinidad and Tobago 3.2% (1992)
74 Panama 3.1% (2024)
75 Brazil 3.0% (2024)
76 Sri Lanka 2.7% (2019)
77 Iran 2.5% (2023)
78 Montenegro 2.5% (2021)
79 Nepal 2.4% (2022)
80 Uzbekistan 2.3% (2025)
81 Kyrgyzstan 2.2% (2024)
82 Suriname 2.2% (2022)
83 Bolivia 2.1% (2024)
84 Palestine 2.1% (2023)
85 Paraguay 2.1% (2024)
86 Mexico 1.6% (2024)
87 Vietnam 1.6% (2022)
88 Egypt 1.4% (2021)
89 Jamaica 1.4% (2021)
90 Japan 1.2% (2020)
91 Lithuania 1.1% (2023)
92 Serbia 1.1% (2023)
93 United States 1.1% (2024)
94 Argentina 1.0% (2024)
95 Belize 1.0% (2018)
96 Bulgaria 1.0% (2023)
97 Australia 0.9% (2020)
98 Hungary 0.9% (2017)
99 Italy 0.9% (2023)
100 Armenia 0.8% (2024)
101 Costa Rica 0.8% (2025)
102 Dominican Rep. 0.8% (2024)
103 Spain 0.8% (2023)
104 Sweden 0.8% (2023)
105 Germany 0.7% (2022)
106 Romania 0.7% (2023)
107 Tunisia 0.7% (2021)
108 Greece 0.6% (2023)
109 Austria 0.5% (2023)
110 Iraq 0.5% (2023)
111 Slovakia 0.5% (2023)
112 Chile 0.4% (2024)
113 Denmark 0.4% (2023)
114 Israel 0.4% (2022)
115 Latvia 0.4% (2023)
116 Mongolia 0.4% (2022)
117 Portugal 0.4% (2023)
118 United Kingdom 0.4% (2021)
119 Albania 0.3% (2020)
120 Bosnia and Herz. 0.3% (2021)
121 Canada 0.3% (2022)
122 Croatia 0.3% (2023)
123 Estonia 0.3% (2023)
124 Finland 0.2% (2023)
125 Norway 0.2% (2023)
126 Poland 0.2% (2023)
127 Switzerland 0.2% (2022)
128 Turkey 0.2% (2023)
129 Uruguay 0.2% (2024)
130 Belgium 0.1% (2023)
131 France 0.1% (2023)
132 Iceland 0.1% (2019)
133 Ireland 0.1% (2023)
134 Jordan 0.1% (2010)
135 Luxembourg 0.1% (2023)
136 Moldova 0.1% (2023)
137 Netherlands 0.1% (2021)
138 Russia 0.1% (2023)
139 South Korea 0.1% (2021)
140 Algeria 0.0% (2011)
141 Azerbaijan 0.0% (2005)
142 Belarus 0.0% (2020)
143 Bhutan 0.0% (2022)
144 China 0.0% (2022)
145 Cyprus 0.0% (2023)
146 Czechia 0.0% (2023)
147 Kazakhstan 0.0% (2021)
148 Malaysia 0.0% (2021)
149 Qatar 0.0% (2017)
150 Slovenia 0.0% (2023)
151 Thailand 0.0% (2024)
152 Ukraine 0.0% (2020)
153 United Arab Emirates 0.0% (2018)

Ordered by value, highest first (ties break by country slug). Countries without data for this metric are not listed — they occupy no rank.

Surface area is computed from Natural Earth 1:110m boundaries with an equal-area spherical formula — not the World Bank's land-area figure; population density is our own derived metric (latest population ÷ that area).

The unweighted median across the 153 countries with data is 2.5% — shown for context, not a world average.

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Data & method

Indicators: World Bank Open Data, 43 indicators — CC BY 4.0 © World Bank — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Human Development Index — CC BY 3.0 IGO © United Nations Development Programme — https://hdr.undp.org/terms-use

Boundaries: Natural Earth 1:110m (public domain); surface areas are computed with an equal-area spherical formula (Chamberlin–Duquette).

Reference facts (capital, languages, currencies, subregion): mledoze/countries (ODbL).