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Topic 14 of 18 · Country Index 2026
Comoros: Poverty & Inequality
How is a country’s income shared, and how many live below a line?
Comoros is placed 98th of 159 countries on poverty & inequality in the Country Index 2026, from 3 of its 3 key statistics. Readings behind it: Gini Index 34.18 (2023); Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day 1.69 (2023).
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Poverty & Inequality
98th
of 159 countries placed
Placed from 3 of 3 key statistics
01The evidence
The 3 key statistics that decide it
Only these place Comoros on poverty & inequality — one vote each. Every value is the publisher’s own, read at the edition the Country Index 2026 used — or, for a survey-based key, each country’s latest reading; the grey ticks are every other country it was compared with, lowest on the left.
Key 1 of 3
Gini Index
World Bank Group
Latest reading per country, 2013–2023 · Comoros’s is from 2020 · CC BY 4.0
34.18
Gini index (0 = perfect equality, 100 = perfect inequality)
Lower is better
Comoros: 34.18. Across the 159 countries at their latest reading, values run from 23 (India) to 59.07 (Namibia); the world median is 33.72.
- World median
- 33.72
- Best in Eastern Africa
- 31.14 Ethiopia
Key 2 of 3
Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day
World Bank Group
Latest reading per country, 2013–2023 · Comoros’s is from 2020 · CC BY 4.0
1.69
Poverty gap at $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%)
Lower is better
Comoros: 1.69. Across the 159 countries at their latest reading, values run from 0 (Czechia) to 48.69 (DR Congo); the world median is 0.345.
- World median
- 0.345
- Best in Eastern Africa
- 0.09 Mauritius
Key 3 of 3
Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY 4.0
48.6
Share of the population unable to afford a healthy diet (%)
Lower is better
Comoros: 48.6. Across the 145 countries in this edition, values run from 0.6 (Belarus) to 93.9 (South Sudan); the world median is 26.4.
- World median
- 26.4
- Best in Eastern Africa
- 17.8 Mauritius
02Over time
Which way Comoros is moving
Each key’s published value, edition by edition, beside the world median. The Country Index 2026 is the first edition of the standing, so the standing itself has no history to chart yet.
Gini Index
Gini index (0 = perfect equality, 100 = perfect inequality) · lower is better
ComorosWorld median
Comoros fell from 55.92 in 2004 to 34.18 in 2020; the world median went from 34.29 to 34.18.
Every year’s figures
Year Comoros World median 2023 — 33.72 2022 — 33.91 2021 — 34.04 2020 34 34.18 2019 — 33.51 2018 — 35.25 2017 — 34.86 2016 — 34.47 2015 — 35.52 2014 45 34.79 2013 — 36.16 2012 — 35.40 2011 — 33.96 2010 — 33.71 2009 — 34.91 2008 — 34.60 2007 — 34.26 2006 — 35.63 2005 — 36.28 2004 56 34.29 2003 — 35.46 2002 — 37.14 Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day
Poverty gap at $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%) · lower is better
ComorosWorld median
Comoros fell from 7.57 in 2004 to 1.69 in 2020; the world median went from 0.79 to 0.28.
Every year’s figures
Year Comoros World median 2023 — 0.345 2022 — 0.420 2021 — 0.335 2020 2 0.280 2019 — 0.380 2018 — 0.460 2017 — 0.300 2016 — 0.440 2015 — 0.500 2014 12 0.635 2013 — 0.515 2012 — 0.640 2011 — 0.430 2010 — 0.530 2009 — 0.600 2008 — 0.350 2007 — 0.360 2006 — 0.465 2005 — 1.250 2004 8 0.790 2003 — 1.650 2002 — 3.010 Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet
Share of the population unable to afford a healthy diet (%) · lower is better
ComorosWorld median
Comoros fell from 59.2 in 2017 to 48.6 in 2025; the world median went from 32.4 to 26.4.
Every year’s figures
Year Comoros World median 2025 48.6 26.40 2024 48.5 27.10 2023 49.8 27.15 2022 53.2 27.90 2021 54.5 29.65 2020 55.4 31.80 2019 56.2 29.05 2018 57.1 29.85 2017 59.2 32.40
03In context
Comoros beside its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place among all 159 countries on poverty & inequality, never a place within the region.
Comoros and Eastern Africa
Comoros has no land border, so the table compares it with its sub-region. Standing among all 159; the key columns are the publishers’ own values.
| Country | Standing | Gini IndexGini index (0 = perfect equality, 100 = perfect inequality) | Poverty Gap at $3.00 a DayPoverty gap at $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%) | Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy DietShare of the population unable to afford a healthy diet (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mauritius | 61st | 36.76 | 0.09 | 17.8 |
 Seychelles | 64th | 32.13 | 0.23 | 43.3 |
| Comoros | 98th | 34.18 | 1.69 | 48.6 |
 Ethiopia | 107th | 31.14 | 10.75 | 67.9 |
 Djibouti | 135th | 41.59 | 9.08 | 49.8 |
 Rwanda | 140th | 39.36 | 10.2 | 69.7 |
 Kenya | 141st | 38.53 | 13.58 | 76.3 |
 Madagascar | 142nd | 36.82 | 27.58 | 85.3 |
 Uganda | 144th | 38.15 | 19.95 | 73.6 |
 Burundi | 146th | 37.46 | 32.44 | 90.9 |
 Tanzania | 148th | 40.49 | 16.74 | 73 |
 Malawi | 150th | 38.54 | 33.78 | 92.7 |
 Zimbabwe | 155th | 50.26 | 19.02 | — |
 South Sudan | 156th | 44.05 | 40.83 | 93.9 |
 Zambia | 158th | 51.48 | 39.76 | 86.2 |
 Mozambique | 159th | 49.56 | 44.72 | 91.3 |
 Eritrea | not placed | — | — | — |
 Somalia | not placed | — | — | — |
| Somaliland | not placed | — | — | — |
“—”: no published reading in that edition. What a standing is
Across Eastern Africa
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 159.
Placed either side on poverty & inequality
The countries immediately above and below Comoros in the topic’s list.
04Context, no vote
Where Comoros is ahead of the world, and behind
16 more statistics filed under poverty & inequality, published in full and deliberately given no vote in the standing. Select a row for the publisher, the rank and the links.
Ahead of the world median2
Statistics on which Comoros does better than the middle country measured.
Intergenerational Persistence in EducationWorld Bank Group · 2017 · world median 0.4460.3040.446No earlier reading
Comoros: 0.304 · world median 0.446 · Correlation between own and parents' years of schooling, born 1980–89 (0–1). World Bank Group, 2017 edition, data for 2017.
Published values in that edition run from 0.123 to 0.66; lower is better.
Position 138th of 153 · derived, 1st = worst.
Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary CompletionUIS · 2024 · world median 0.5290.5790.529No earlier reading
Comoros: 0.579 · world median 0.529 · Adjusted wealth parity index, lower secondary completion (poorest vs richest fifth; 1 = parity). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0.032 to 1.022; higher is better.
Behind the world median12
Statistics on which Comoros does worse than the middle country measured.
Coefficient of Variation of Habitual Caloric ConsumptionFAO · 2024 · world median 0.250.260.25▲ Improved since 2014
Comoros: 0.26 · world median 0.25 · Coefficient of variation of habitual calorie consumption across the population (standard deviation ÷ mean). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0.17 to 0.4; lower is better.
Global Multidimensional Poverty IndexOPHI · 2025 · world median 0.0390.0840.039▲ Improved since 2018
Comoros: 0.084 · world median 0.039 · MPI (0–1). Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 0.517; lower is better.
Position 46th of 109 · derived, 1st = worst.
Poverty Headcount at $3.00 a Day, Line-up EstimatesWorld Bank Group · 2024 · world median 2.15.062.1▲ Improved since 2014
Comoros: 5.06 · world median 2.1 · Population below $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP, World Bank line-up estimate (%). World Bank Group, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 89.54; lower is better.
Multidimensional Poverty MeasureWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median 4.25214.014.252No earlier reading
Comoros: 14.01 · world median 4.252 · Multidimensional poverty headcount ratio (%). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 87.96; lower is better.
Position 56th of 157 · derived, 1st = worst.
Exclusion by Socio-Economic GroupV-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg · 2023 · world median 0.4130.5720.413▲ Improved since 2013
Comoros: 0.572 · world median 0.413 · Exclusion by socio-economic group index (0–1; higher = more exclusion). V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0.014 to 0.969; lower is better.
Position 56th of 174 · derived, 1st = worst.
Working Poverty RateILO · 2025 · world median 4.88524.954.885No real change since 2015
Comoros: 24.95 · world median 4.885 · Employed people living in extreme poverty (%). International Labour Organization (ILO), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0.007 to 86.02; lower is better.
Gini Index of Disposable Income (SWIID)Frederick Solt, University of Iowa · 2023 · world median 3341.133No real change since 2013
Comoros: 41.1 · world median 33 · Gini index of disposable household income (0–100), SWIID estimate. Frederick Solt, University of Iowa, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 22.3 to 51.2; lower is better.
Position 16th of 79 · derived, 1st = worst.
Actual Individual Consumption per Capita (PPP)World Bank Group · 2021 · world median 12,8003,30112,800No real change since 2017
Comoros: 3,301 · world median 12,800 · Actual individual consumption per capita (PPP, current international $). World Bank Group, 2021 edition, data for 2021.
Published values in that edition run from 688.7 to 52,654; higher is better.
Position 143rd of 173 · derived.
Inequality-adjusted Human Development IndexUNDP Human Development Report Office · 2023 · world median 0.6090.3560.609No real change since 2014
Comoros: 0.356 · world median 0.609 · IHDI (0–1). UNDP Human Development Report Office, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0.226 to 0.923; higher is better.
Position 144th of 169 · derived.
Severe Child Food Poverty, Children Aged 6–23 MonthsUNICEF · 2024 · world median 21.2634.8521.26No earlier reading
Comoros: 34.85 · world median 21.26 · Children aged 6-23 months fed from at most 2 of 8 food groups (%). UNICEF, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 1.169 to 63.08; lower is better.
Position 16th of 113 · derived, 1st = worst.
Adequacy of Social Protection and Labour BenefitsWorld Bank Group · 2023 · world median 18.655.72918.65No earlier reading
Comoros: 5.729 · world median 18.65 · Benefits received as a share of beneficiaries' total income or consumption (%). World Bank Group, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0.455 to 90.86; higher is better.
Coefficient of Human InequalityUNDP Human Development Report Office · 2023 · world median 17.0539.6917.05No real change since 2014
Comoros: 39.69 · world median 17.05 · Coefficient of Human Inequality (%). UNDP Human Development Report Office, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 4.865 to 43.08; lower is better.
Position 5th of 169 · derived, 1st = worst.
No better end2
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
Cost of a Healthy DietFAO · 2025 · world median 4.555.474.55Moved since 2017
Comoros: 5.47 · world median 4.55 · Cost of the cheapest locally available healthy diet, PPP dollars per person per day. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 2.66 to 8.27.
Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health SpendingWorld Bank Group · 2019 · world median 6.888.8146.88No earlier reading
Comoros: 8.814 · world median 6.88 · Population in households spending more than 10% of their budget on health out of pocket (%). World Bank Group, 2019 edition, data for 2019.
Published values in that edition run from 0.133 to 31.21.
No current reading for Comoros
Gini Index (last 2020), Gini Index of Monthly Earnings (last 2021), Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, Income Share Held by Lowest 20% (last 2020), Income Share Held by Richest 10% (last 2020), Low Pay Rate (last 2021), Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person (last 2020), Palma Ratio (last 2020), Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day (last 2020), Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day (last 2020), Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day (last 2020), Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day (last 2020), Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day (last 2020), Prevalence of Moderate or Severe Food Insecurity (last 2023), Prosperity Gap (last 2020) and Societal Poverty Rate (last 2020). Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.
“Position · derived” is this site’s ordering of the published values, 1st = best unless the row says otherwise; the publisher ranks no country on it. Rank, position and standing
05Country Index 2026
Poverty & Inequality among Comoros’s 15 topics
Poverty & Inequality is Comoros’s 3rd best-placed topic of 15. Strongest first, each marker at its share of that topic’s field.
- Environment & Sustainability41st of 1863/4 keys
- Risk & Resilience99th of 1934/4 keys
- Poverty & Inequality98th of 1593/3 keys
- Democracy & Civil Libertiesjoint 142nd of 1984/4 keys
- Work & Labour133rd of 1824/4 keys
- Health & Wellbeingjoint 152nd of 2003/4 keys
- Economy & Innovation134th of 1763/4 keys
- Food & Agriculture144th of 1843/4 keys
- Gender & Equality144th of 1834/4 keys
- Development & Human Capitaljoint 168th of 1963/3 keys
- Peace & Security152nd of 1773/4 keys
- Digital & Technology176th of 1984/4 keys
- Governance & Institutions174th of 1944/4 keys
- Education & Knowledge180th of 1984/4 keys
- Mobility & Tradejoint 172nd of 1772/4 keys
No standing on Energy: too few of those topics’ key statistics are published for this country.
06The top of the list
Who leads on poverty & inequality
The three countries placed highest of 159, and the leaders Comoros can most readily be measured against.
1
BelarusEastern Europe
1st of 159 · 3 of 3 keys
Photo: zedlik , cropped by Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
2
SloveniaSouthern Europe
2nd of 159 · 3 of 3 keys
Photo: Z.K. derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY 3.0, greyscale
=3
UkraineEastern Europe
Joint 3rd of 159 · 2 of 3 keys
Photo: uploaded by Chern038 · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
Placed highest nearby
Highest in Africa
Tunisia43rd3/3 keysHighest in Eastern Africa
Mauritius61st3/3 keysThis page
Comoros98th3/3 keys
Positions out of 159 placed on the topic. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed, and the top of the list is often held on fewer of them.
07Questions
Comoros on poverty & inequality: questions answered
Every answer is built from the numbers on this page, so none can say something the page does not.
How does Comoros rank on poverty & inequality?
Comoros is placed 98th of 159 countries on Poverty & Inequality in the Country Index 2026, from 3 of its 3 key statistics (Gini Index, Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day and Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet). The position is this site’s ordering of published statistics, not a rank any publisher printed.
What is the latest Gini Index figure for Comoros?
34.18 in 2023 (gini index (0 = perfect equality, 100 = perfect inequality)), according to World Bank Group. The world median in the same edition was 33.72.
What is the latest Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day figure for Comoros?
1.69 in 2023 (poverty gap at $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%)), according to World Bank Group. The world median in the same edition was 0.345.
How have Comoros’s poverty & inequality figures changed?
Gini Index fell from 55.92 in 2004 to 34.18 in 2020; Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day fell from 7.57 in 2004 to 1.69 in 2020; Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet fell from 59.2 in 2017 to 48.6 in 2025.
Which poverty & inequality statistics are missing for Comoros?
No current reading is published for Comoros on Gini Index, Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, Income Growth of the Poorest 40%, Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, Income Share Held by Richest 10%, Low Pay Rate, Median Daily Income or Consumption per Person, Palma Ratio, Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day, Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day, Poverty Headcount Ratio at $4.20 a Day, Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day, Poverty Severity (Squared Poverty Gap) at $3.00 a Day, Prevalence of Moderate or Severe Food Insecurity, Prosperity Gap and Societal Poverty Rate. They are listed rather than hidden, so the evidence on the page can be checked against it.
08Method
Method, sources and how to cite
What this topic does not measure
These figures come from household surveys, which most countries run every few years rather than every year. So the subject's standing is read from each country's most recent survey of the last decade, with the year of every reading shown, rather than from one year in which only a minority of countries were surveyed. Two readings decide it — how unequally income is shared and how deep extreme poverty runs — because the other poverty and inequality measures here largely repeat one of those two or repeat average income, which already counts under Economy and Development. Countries with no survey in the last decade have no standing here. What work pays is under Work & Labour; wealth, as opposed to income, has no global source this site is permitted to republish.
How the Poverty & Inequality standing is decided
A standing is this site’s ordering, named with its edition — never a publisher’s rank. 3 key statistics vote, one vote each; every country’s published value becomes a place within that key’s own field, the places are averaged, and the average is never published. A country needs 2 of the 3 keys to be placed.
The poverty & inequality method, step by stepHow every standing on this site is built
The key statistics and their licences
- Gini Index — World Bank Group, CC BY 4.0
- Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day — World Bank Group, CC BY 4.0
- Share of Population Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), CC BY 4.0
The other 16 statistics on this page come from 9 publishers, each named beside its numbers, with every edition and licence on the datasets pages.
The standing itself is part of the Country Index 2026, published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photographs
Comoros’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Comoros (banner) — Woodlouse derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Belarus — zedlik , cropped by Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Slovenia — Z.K. derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY 3.0
- Ukraine — uploaded by Chern038, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Comoros: Poverty & Inequality — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/comoros/poverty