The CIA World Factbook Edition 2024 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 2024 edition carries it in 148 entries, in its Economy section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2024 edition: 148
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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2024

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Africa

43 entries

Angola

32.3% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Benin

38.5% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Botswana

16.1% (2015 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Burkina Faso

43.2% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Cabo Verde

35.2% (2015 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Cameroon

37.5% (2014 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Central African Republic

68.8% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Chad

42.3% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo

63% (2014 est.)

Cote d'Ivoire

37.5% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Djibouti

21.1% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Egypt

29.7% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Eswatini

58.9% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Ethiopia

23.5% (2015 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Gabon

33.4% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Gambia, The now The Gambia

53.4% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Ghana

23.4% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Guinea

43.7% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Guinea-Bissau

47.7% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Kenya

36.1% (2015 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Lesotho

49.7% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Liberia

50.9% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Malawi

50.7% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Mali

44.6% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Mauritania

31.8% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Mauritius

10.3% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Mozambique

46.1% (2014 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Namibia

17.4% (2015 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Niger

40.8% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Nigeria

40.1% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Rwanda

38.2% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Sao Tome and Principe

55.5% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Seychelles

25.3% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Sierra Leone

56.8% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Somalia

54.4% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

South Africa

55.5% (2014 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

South Sudan

82.3% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Tanzania

26.4% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Togo

45.5% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Tunisia

16.6% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Uganda

20.3% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Zambia

60% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Zimbabwe

38.3% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Arctic Region

2 entries

Greenland

16.2% (2015 est.)

Iceland

8.8% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Asia

16 entries

Afghanistan

54.5% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Armenia

24.8% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Azerbaijan

4.9% (2015 est.)

Bangladesh

18.7% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Bhutan

12.4% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

China

0% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Georgia

15.6% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Kazakhstan

5.2% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Korea, South now South Korea

14.4% (2016 est.)

Kyrgyzstan

33.3% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Maldives

5.4% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Mongolia

27.8% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Pakistan

21.9% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Russia

11% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Sri Lanka

14.3% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Tajikistan

22.5% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Central America and the Caribbean

11 entries

Costa Rica

25.5% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Dominican Republic

23.9% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

El Salvador

26.6% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Grenada

25% (2018 est.)

Guatemala

59.3% (2014 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Honduras

48% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Jamaica

17.1% (2016 est.)

Nicaragua

24.9% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Panama

21.5% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Saint Lucia

25% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Trinidad and Tobago

20% (2014 est.)

Europe

39 entries

Albania

22% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Austria

14.8% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Belarus

4.8% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Belgium

12.3% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Bosnia and Herzegovina

16.9% (2015 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Bulgaria

20.6% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Croatia

18% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Czechia

10.2% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Denmark

12.4% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Estonia

22.5% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Faroe Islands

10% (2015 est.)

Finland

12.2% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

France

15.6% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Germany

14.8% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Greece

18.8% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Hungary

12.1% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Ireland

14% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Italy

20.1% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Kosovo

17.6% (2015 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Latvia

22.5% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Lithuania

20.9% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Luxembourg

17.3% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Malta

16.7% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Moldova

31.1% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Montenegro

21.2% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Netherlands

14.5% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

North Macedonia

21.8% (2019 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Norway

12.2% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Poland

11.8% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Portugal

16.4% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Romania

21.2% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Serbia

21.2% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Slovakia

13.7% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Slovenia

12.7% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Spain

20.2% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Sweden

16.1% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Switzerland

14.7% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Ukraine

1.6% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

United Kingdom

18.6% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Middle East

9 entries

Cyprus

13.9% (2021 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Gaza Strip

29.2% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line; entry includes West Bank and Gaza Strip

Iraq

23% (2014 est.)

Israel

22% (2014 est.)

note: Israel's poverty line is $7.30 per person per day

Jordan

15.7% (2018 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Syria

82.5% (2014 est.)

Turkey (Turkiye) now Turkiye

14.4% (2020 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

West Bank

29.2% (2016 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line; entry includes West Bank and Gaza Strip

Yemen

48.6% (2014 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

North America

1 entry

Mexico

36.3% (2022 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Oceania

7 entries

South America

10 entries

Southeast Asia

10 entries

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

24.8% (2017 est.)

note: % of population with income below national poverty line

Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2024, “Population below poverty line”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/population-below-poverty-line/2024.

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