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Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation

Each country’s newest reading as of 2025; every row carries its own year · stored as published, never rewritten

Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation covers 160 countries. South Sudan is highest, at 82.3; China is lowest, at 0.0. The middle country reads 21.3. 16 readings are more than ten years older than the file and are listed but not compared.

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Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines · Latest available · compiled 2025

HighestSouth Sudan

82.3

LowestChina

0.0

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 160 countries · select a heading to sort

Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
South SudanSSDEastern Africa · 2016 reading201682.3
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa · 2021 reading202175.2
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa · 2021 reading202168.8
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa · 2022 reading202265.0
HondurasHNDCentral America · 2025 reading202560.1
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa · 2022 reading202260.0
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa · 2016 reading201658.9
HaitiHTICaribbean · 2012 reading, too old to compare201258.5
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa · 2018 reading201856.8
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa · 2020 reading202056.2
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa · 2022 reading202256.2
GuatemalaGTMCentral America · 2023 reading202356.0
São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa · 2017 reading201755.5
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa · 2022 reading202255.4
GambiaGMBWestern Africa · 2020 reading202053.4
BelizeBLZCentral America · 2018 reading201852.0
BurundiBDIEastern Africa · 2020 reading202051.0
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa · 2016 reading201650.9
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa · 2022 reading202250.7
MalawiMWIEastern Africa · 2019 reading201950.7
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa · 2021 reading202150.5
LesothoLSOSouthern Africa · 2017 reading201749.7
YemenYEMWestern Asia · 2014 reading, too old to compare201448.6
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia · 2019 reading201947.1
SudanSDNNorthern Africa · 2009 reading, too old to compare200946.5

02In Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline. Readings too old to compare take no part.

Highest

  1. South Sudan82.3
  2. Madagascar75.2
  3. Central African Republic68.8
  4. Mozambique65.0
  5. Honduras60.1

Lowest

  1. China0.0
  2. Belarus3.5
  3. Morocco3.9
  4. Vietnam4.2
  5. Kazakhstan5.0

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 21.3. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • Readings from many years

    Each country’s newest reading as of 2025, from 2006 to 2025. 16 are more than ten years older than the file: listed and marked, but left out of the ends and the changes.

  • 127 distinct values among 160

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 1 decimal. 3 countries share 21.9. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 160 countries has every column.

04The files

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The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2025). Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/national-poverty-rate/2025

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06Questions

Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation: questions and answers

Which country has the highest poverty rate (national poverty lines) in Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation?

South Sudan, at 82.3, of the 160 countries in the file.

How many countries does Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation cover?

160.

Where can I download Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Poverty Headcount at National Poverty Lines, 2025 compilation the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-26, when it was read from the publisher.

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