Extreme poverty

Share of people living on less than $3.00 a day at 2021 prices.

measured by: World Bank
originally from: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national household surveys
years covered: 1963–2025
subject: Economic

Higher is generally taken as worse.

How this is measured

The international extreme-poverty line, revised in 2025 from $2.15 at 2017 prices to $3.00 at 2021 prices — the threshold moves with the price data, so figures here will not match older publications. From the same infrequent household surveys as the Gini index, with the same gaps between them.

Ranked for 2023

55 countries and territories have a figure for 2023. This is the most recent year the series covers well; the viewer holds every year from 1963.

#	Country	Region	Poverty
1	Cyprus	Europe	0.0%
2	Czechia	Europe	0.0%
3	Slovenia	Europe	0.0%
4	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	0.0%
5	Belgium	Europe	0.1%
6	France	Europe	0.1%
7	Ireland	Europe	0.1%
8	Luxembourg	Europe	0.1%
9	Moldova	Eurasia	0.1%
10	Russia	Eurasia	0.1%
11	Finland	Europe	0.2%
12	Norway	Europe	0.2%
13	Poland	Europe	0.2%
14	Turkey	Eurasia	0.2%
15	Uruguay	Americas	0.2%
16	Estonia	Europe	0.3%
17	Croatia	Europe	0.3%
18	Denmark	Europe	0.4%
19	Latvia	Europe	0.4%
20	Portugal	Europe	0.4%
21	Austria	Europe	0.5%
22	Iraq	Middle East & North Africa	0.5%
23	Slovakia	Europe	0.5%
24	Greece	Europe	0.6%
25	Romania	Europe	0.7%
26	Spain	Europe	0.8%
27	Sweden	Europe	0.8%
28	Italy	Europe	0.9%
29	Bulgaria	Europe	1.0%
30	Lithuania	Europe	1.1%
31	Serbia	Europe	1.1%
32	Argentina	Americas	1.2%
33	United States	Americas	1.2%
34	Dominican Republic	Americas	1.3%
35	Costa Rica	Americas	1.5%
36	Armenia	Eurasia	1.9%
37	Palestine	Middle East & North Africa	2.1%
38	Paraguay	Americas	2.4%
39	Iran	Middle East & North Africa	2.5%
40	Kyrgyzstan	Eurasia	2.7%
41	Bolivia	Americas	2.8%
42	Panama	Americas	3.7%
43	Brazil	Americas	3.8%
44	Uzbekistan	Eurasia	4.1%
45	El Salvador	Americas	4.6%
46	Ecuador	Americas	4.7%
47	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	5.3%
48	Georgia	Eurasia	5.8%
49	Peru	Americas	5.9%
50	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	6.7%
51	Tajikistan	Eurasia	7.3%
52	Colombia	Americas	8.6%
53	Guatemala	Americas	9.7%
54	Honduras	Americas	17.0%
55	Rwanda	Sub-Saharan Africa	38.6%

Data by year

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Source and licence

World Bank — World Development Indicators

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