Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. 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 | 98.3 | 70.5 | 53.5 | 49.2 | 44.4 | 36.4 | 31.5 | 27.2 | 24.0 | ||||
| Indonesia | 96.3 | 95.1 | 85.9 | 75.5 | 72.2 | 71.4 | 68.7 | 66.6 | 64.3 | 59.7 | 55.8 | 53.2 | 52.2 |
| Japan | 0.5 | 1.2 | |||||||||||
| Republic of Korea | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.7 | |||||||||
| Lao People’s Democratic Republic | 78.7 | 70.4 | |||||||||||
| Malaysia | 8.6 | 4.0 | 2.9 | ||||||||||
| Myanmar | 62.1 | 54.3 | |||||||||||
| Philippines | 64.0 | 59.9 | 54.6 | 46.9 | |||||||||
| Thailand | 64.6 | 48.6 | 17.5 | 13.4 | 13.5 | 11.3 | 10.4 | 7.0 | 8.2 | 7.6 | 8.4 | 6.2 | |
| Viet Nam | 46.8 | 40.8 | 35.0 | 27.2 | 22.4 |