Number of people, in millions, living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 PPP is calculated by multiplying the poverty rate and the population. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.
| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| China | 752.3 | 241.7 | 149.9 | 106.6 | 87.8 | 25.3 | 18.6 | 10.0 | 7.2 | ||||
| Indonesia | 99.7 | 73.8 | 40.7 | 32.1 | 26.8 | 23.5 | 18.4 | 15.8 | 15.0 | 13.7 | 11.8 | 9.7 | 7.3 |
| Japan | 0.0 | 0.9 | |||||||||||
| Republic of Korea | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||||||||
| Lao People’s Democratic Republic | 0.9 | 0.7 | |||||||||||
| Malaysia | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Myanmar | 2.5 | 0.7 | |||||||||||
| Philippines | 10.7 | 10.1 | 6.3 | 2.9 | |||||||||
| Thailand | 5.2 | 1.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
| Viet Nam | 3.5 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 1.7 | 1.7 |