Population below $3.1 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.1 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.
| 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2018 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benin | 80.30 | 83.40 | 58.50 | 50.00 | ||||||
| Burkina Faso | 77.40 | 66.10 | 64.60 | |||||||
| केप वर्दे | 29.70 | |||||||||
| Côte d'Ivoire | 65.60 | 42.20 | 41.70 | |||||||
| Ghana | 76.70 | 59.80 | 56.30 | |||||||
| Guinea Bissau | 85.30 | 59.40 | 62.10 | |||||||
| Liberia | 54.70 | 55.00 | ||||||||
| Mali | 51.20 | 59.50 | ||||||||
| Niger | 91.80 | 86.00 | 79.40 | 78.10 | 79.70 | |||||
| Nigeria | 58.70 | 57.70 | 55.80 | 55.10 | ||||||
| Senegal | 71.30 | 71.70 | 38.50 | 37.30 | ||||||
| Sierra Leone | 73.30 | 65.00 | ||||||||
| Gambia | 52.90 | 37.70 | 40.20 | |||||||
| Togo | 77.70 | 76.20 | 54.70 | 55.60 |