Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: national-poverty-rate-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

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	0.0China82.3South 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.

One edition, covering 160 countries.

Not in this dataset · 65 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 SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaAustraliaBahamasBahrainBermudaBrazilBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCanadaCayman IslandsChannel IslandsComorosCook IslandsCubaCuraçaoDominicaEritreaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamGuyanaHong KongIranIsle of ManIsraelJapanKuwaitLibyaLiechtensteinMacauMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNiueNorth KoreaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsOmanPuerto RicoQatarSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSan MarinoSaudi ArabiaSingaporeSint MaartenSomalilandSouth KoreaTaiwanTrinidad and TobagoTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited Arab EmiratesUnited StatesUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group

   pip.worldbank.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines 2025

   SI.POV.NAHC

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 26, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: national-poverty-rate-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/national-poverty-rate

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.