The CIA World Factbook Edition 2012 Economy
Population below poverty line In 26 editions of 36.
Population below poverty line was published in 26 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1999 to 2025. The 2012 edition carries it in 230 entries, in its Economy section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2012 edition
- 230
- the first edition with it
- 1999
- the latest edition with it
- 2025
Published as “Population below poverty line” (1999 to 2025).
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Entries with Population below poverty line in each edition
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Africa
57 entriesNamibia
55.8%
note: 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.)
Arctic Region
2 entriesAsia
22 entriesChina
13.4%
note: in 2011, China set a new poverty line at RMB 2300 (approximately US $363; 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)
Japan
16% (2010)
note: Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) press release, 20 October 2009 (2010)
Central America and the Caribbean
28 entriesEurope
49 entriesMiddle East
17 entriesNorth America
5 entriesCanada
9.4%
note: 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)
Mexico
51.3%
note: based on food-based definition of poverty; asset based poverty amounted to more than 47% (2010 est.)
Oceania
23 entriesSouth America
13 entriesBolivia
51.3%
note: based on percent of population living on less than the international standard of $2/day (2009 est.)
Southeast Asia
14 entriesCite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2012, “Population below poverty line”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/population-below-poverty-line/2012.