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Dataset · World Bank Group
Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines
Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation · 160 countries
This is the share of people living below their own country’s poverty line — the line each government draws for itself. It is what each government counts as poor, which makes it the figure most national debates are about.
This site holds one edition, Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines · the file
- Newest
- Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation
- Held
- 1 edition · 160 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
01One edition
Every edition
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Edition | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation | 160 | — | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: national-poverty-rate-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
024 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 160 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 160 | 0 | |
Reference yearreference_yearReading year | The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side. | Year | — | 18 | 0 | |
Population below the national poverty line (%)national_poverty_rateHeadline | The headline figure: Population below the national poverty line (%). | Number · up to 1 decimal | 0.0 China82.3 South Sudanmiddle 21.8 | 127 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
03160 countries across every edition
Who is covered
How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2025 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 51 |
| Americas | 24 |
| Asia | 34 |
| Europe | 40 |
| Oceania | 11 |
| All | 160 |
One edition, covering 160 countries.
Not in this dataset · 64 places this site covers
World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
American Samoa
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Australia
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bermuda
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Canada
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Comoros
Cook Islands
Cuba
Curaçao
Dominica
Eritrea
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Guyana
Hong Kong
Iran
Isle of Man
Israel
Japan
Kuwait
Libya
Liechtenstein
Macau
Monaco
Montserrat
Nauru
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Niue
North Korea
Northern Mariana Islands
Oman
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Martin
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sint MaartenSomaliland
South Korea
Taiwan
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
United Arab Emirates
United States
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines 2025
3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per edition
It downloads as a CSV: national-poverty-rate-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 1 decimal, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
Compiled by the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform from national statistics offices, through the Bank’s indicator API (SI.POV.NAHC), stored to the one decimal the national offices publish.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 26, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: World Bank Group, Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group. Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/national-poverty-rate
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Poverty and Inequality Platform, compiled from official government sources. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
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- Poverty Gap at $3.00 a DayWorld Bank Group · 22 held · 2002–2023
- Income Share Held by Lowest 20%World Bank Group · 22 held · 2002–2023
07Questions
Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines: questions and answers
What is the Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines?
This is the share of people living below their own country’s poverty line — the line each government draws for itself. It is what each government counts as poor, which makes it the figure most national debates are about.
Which editions of the Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines can I download?
One: Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation, as a CSV file.
Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.