Population below $1.9 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $1.9 a day at 2005 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.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.9 a day based on purchasing-power-parity in constant prices of 2011 (%)

2005201120142017201820212022
Cameroon29.0026.70
Central African Republic71.60
Chad45.2041.9039.50
Congo54.5039.20
Equatorial Guinea8.80
Gabon9.203.80