Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day 2019

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Report year 2019Data year 2019

Population below $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%)Higher is worse — rank 1 is worst affectedPublished by World Bank Group

21 reference years (2002–2022), covering 69 to 93 countries, from the World Bank’s own Poverty and Inequality Platform via its indicator API (SI.POV.DDAY). $3.00 a day at 2021 purchasing power parities is the Bank’s international extreme-poverty line. ⚠ THE LINE MOVED IN 2025, from $2.15 at 2017 PPPs. Poverty did not jump that year; the yardstick was re-based, so these figures are not comparable with published $1.90 or $2.15 counts from earlier reports. ⚠ THE COUNTRY SET CHANGES EVERY YEAR, exactly as it does for the Gini index and for the same reason: each figure comes from whichever household survey that country happened to run, so a country missing from an edition did not escape poverty — it did not run a survey. One country’s line over time is meaningful; comparing the shape of one year against another is not. ⚠ A zero here is real, not a gap: several high-income countries genuinely have nobody below this line. ⚠ Years outside 2002–2022 fall below 60 countries and are not imported. ⚠ The Bank publishes no rank, so none is stored; the POSITION shown on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score, and is labelled as ours. Opted in 2026-09-10, once PIP’s two decimals thinned the ties: the deepest is now five countries in one edition, and those are genuine zeros — countries with nobody below the line, which share position 1 for a real reason — where the Bank’s one-decimal copy tied eight by rounding real readings such as Belgium’s 0.02% down to nothing. Read from the Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP), not its indicator API: the API re-publishes PIP rounded to one decimal, which turned Belgium’s 0.02% into 0. Re-sourced 2026-09-09. ⚠ Nineteen countries ran an income AND a consumption survey in the same year; only one can be an edition row, and the two differ by up to 8 index points. The choice is not made here — it is read out of the Bank’s own published figure for that country-year (income in 83 cases, consumption in 5).

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day 2019 — World Bank Group

Cite as: World Bank. Poverty and Inequality Platform. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.

Licence: CC BY 4.0

The share of the population below $3.00 a day in 2021 PPP, exactly as published by the World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform. Read from PIP rather than the Bank's indicator API, which rounds to one decimal — Belgium's 0.02% arrives there as 0.

79 rows × 5 columns · imported from the publisher’s published data file on 2026-09-10

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Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day 2019 — 79 rows. Column headings sort the table.
Country	ISO Code	Population below $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%)	Survey measures	Survey year
Belarus	BLR	0.00	consumption	2,019.00
China	CHN	0.00	consumption	2,019.00
Czechia	CZE	0.00	income	2,019.00
Maldives	MDV	0.00	consumption	2,019.60
Slovenia	SVN	0.00	income	2,019.00
Switzerland	CHE	0.02	income	2,019.00
Moldova	MDA	0.03	consumption	2,019.00
Finland	FIN	0.04	income	2,019.00
France	FRA	0.05	income	2,019.00
Ireland	IRL	0.06	income	2,019.00
Iceland	ISL	0.08	income	2,019.00
Kazakhstan	KAZ	0.08	consumption	2,019.00
Luxembourg	LUX	0.10	income	2,019.00
Netherlands	NLD	0.10	income	2,019.00
Poland	POL	0.10	income	2,019.00
Taiwan	TWN	0.10	income	2,019.00
Belgium	BEL	0.11	income	2,019.00
Thailand	THA	0.13	consumption	2,019.00
Uruguay	URY	0.13	income	2,019.00
Cyprus	CYP	0.17	income	2,019.00
Portugal	PRT	0.18	income	2,019.00
Ukraine	UKR	0.18	consumption	2,019.00
Norway	NOR	0.19	income	2,019.00
Germany	DEU	0.20	income	2,019.00
South Korea	KOR	0.20	income	2,019.00
Slovakia	SVK	0.23	income	2,019.00
Russia	RUS	0.26	income	2,019.00
Albania	ALB	0.27	consumption	2,019.00
Denmark	DNK	0.27	income	2,019.00
Malta	MLT	0.30	income	2,019.00
Latvia	LVA	0.34	income	2,019.00
Croatia	HRV	0.36	income	2,019.00
Sweden	SWE	0.36	income	2,019.00
Canada	CAN	0.40	income	2,019.00
United Kingdom	GBR	0.40	income	2,019.00
Lithuania	LTU	0.60	income	2,019.00
Austria	AUT	0.65	income	2,019.00
Estonia	EST	0.72	income	2,019.00
Spain	ESP	0.89	income	2,019.00
Israel	ISR	0.90	income	2,019.00
Greece	GRC	0.97	income	2,019.00
United States	USA	1.00	income	2,019.00
Dominican Republic	DOM	1.01	income	2,019.00
Italy	ITA	1.04	income	2,019.00
Türkiye	TUR	1.28	income	2,019.00
Japan	JPN	1.30	income	2,019.00
Bulgaria	BGR	1.63	income	2,019.00
Argentina	ARG	1.68	income	2,019.00
Costa Rica	CRI	1.73	income	2,019.00
Egypt	EGY	1.99	consumption	2,019.43
Marshall Islands	MHL	2.10	consumption	2,019.50
Armenia	ARM	2.43	consumption	2,019.00
Paraguay	PRY	2.44	income	2,019.00
Montenegro	MNE	2.49	income	2,019.00
Sri Lanka	LKA	2.71	consumption	2,019.00
Serbia	SRB	2.72	income	2,019.00
Panama	PAN	2.92	income	2,019.00
El Salvador	SLV	2.98	income	2,019.00
Romania	ROU	3.09	income	2,019.00
Bolivia	BOL	3.14	income	2,019.00
North Macedonia	MKD	3.94	income	2,019.00
Iran	IRN	4.28	consumption	2,019.23
Ecuador	ECU	4.65	income	2,019.00
Fiji	FJI	4.65	consumption	2,019.15
Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	4.92	consumption	2,019.00
Peru	PER	5.42	income	2,019.00
Kiribati	KIR	6.13	consumption	2,019.27
Brazil	BRA	7.03	income	2,019.00
Georgia	GEO	9.70	consumption	2,019.00
Mauritania	MRT	10.22	consumption	2,019.60
Indonesia	IDN	10.85	consumption	2,019.00
Colombia	COL	11.29	income	2,019.00
Kosovo	XKX	11.31	income	2,019.00
Honduras	HND	18.78	income	2,019.00
Vanuatu	VUT	19.50	consumption	2,019.21
Zimbabwe	ZWE	49.22	consumption	2,019.00
Uganda	UGA	59.78	consumption	2,019.64
Malawi	MWI	75.44	consumption	2,019.31
Mozambique	MOZ	81.63	consumption	2,019.92

Country

ISO Code

Population below $3.00 a day, 2021 PPP (%)

Survey measures

Survey year

Belarus

BLR

0.00

consumption

2,019.00

China

CHN