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.
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| Finland | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Iceland | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | ||
| Norway | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Sweden | 0.2 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.2 |