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.
| 1970 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costa Rica | 13.90 | 9.80 | 5.00 | 2.20 | 2.70 | 2.60 | 2.60 | 2.40 | 2.40 | 2.40 | 1.70 | 2.30 | 1.70 | 3.40 | 2.20 | 1.60 | 1.50 | 1.30 | |
| Argentina | 7.30 | 4.40 | 1.50 | 1.20 | 1.30 | 1.10 | 1.10 | 1.30 | 1.10 | 1.60 | 1.70 | 2.20 | 1.40 | 1.30 | 1.20 | ||||
| Barbados | 1.70 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Belize | 1.00 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bolivia | 5.80 | 28.30 | 18.70 | 6.90 | 7.90 | 6.80 | 5.60 | 6.20 | 7.20 | 6.40 | 4.70 | 3.10 | 4.20 | 3.10 | 3.30 | 2.80 | |||
| Brazil | 30.30 | 13.70 | 7.10 | 6.40 | 5.40 | 4.70 | 5.40 | 6.50 | 6.90 | 6.90 | 7.00 | 2.80 | 7.50 | 4.90 | 3.80 | ||||
| Chile | 16.00 | 8.60 | 1.70 | 0.80 | 0.70 | 0.50 | 1.70 | 0.50 | |||||||||||
| Colombia | 23.90 | 16.80 | 13.10 | 11.20 | 10.90 | 9.90 | 9.00 | 8.10 | 8.00 | 7.30 | 7.40 | 8.80 | 13.50 | 11.20 | 9.30 | 7.70 | |||
| Dominican Republic | 8.30 | 9.90 | 5.50 | 5.30 | 5.40 | 4.40 | 4.10 | 3.30 | 3.00 | 1.50 | 1.10 | 1.00 | 1.30 | 1.30 | 1.00 | 1.30 | |||
| Ecuador | 34.10 | 15.40 | 7.80 | 6.40 | 6.00 | 4.50 | 4.00 | 4.80 | 5.00 | 4.30 | 4.70 | 4.60 | 8.40 | 5.30 | 4.40 | 4.70 | |||
| El Salvador | 18.40 | 16.40 | 11.40 | 10.10 | 8.50 | 7.10 | 7.00 | 5.30 | 5.80 | 4.50 | 4.10 | 3.00 | 5.10 | 5.20 | 4.60 | ||||
| Grenada | 0.80 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Guatemala | 8.80 | 8.00 | 9.70 | ||||||||||||||||
| Haiti | 40.40 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Honduras | 51.70 | 31.30 | 19.60 | 20.10 | 24.00 | 20.80 | 20.60 | 19.90 | 19.80 | 19.30 | 19.80 | 18.80 | 17.00 | ||||||
| Jamaica | 11.60 | 0.40 | 1.40 | ||||||||||||||||
| Mexico | 16.30 | 11.70 | 8.40 | 7.30 | 7.20 | 4.40 | 3.90 | 4.30 | 2.30 | ||||||||||
| Nicaragua | 16.50 | 6.60 | |||||||||||||||||
| Panama | 16.30 | 14.50 | 7.70 | 6.10 | 7.40 | 5.90 | 6.40 | 4.80 | 4.80 | 4.30 | 3.70 | 2.90 | 3.30 | 3.70 | |||||
| Paraguay | 2.50 | 10.10 | 9.40 | 8.90 | 6.40 | 4.10 | 4.30 | 4.20 | 4.20 | 2.40 | 3.10 | 2.40 | 2.60 | 1.90 | 3.50 | 2.60 | |||
| Peru | 25.50 | 25.40 | 11.20 | 10.30 | 9.50 | 8.60 | 8.00 | 8.00 | 7.50 | 7.30 | 6.10 | 5.40 | 10.30 | 5.20 | 4.80 | 5.90 | |||
| Saint Lucia | 0.10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Suriname | 2.20 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Uruguay | 0.90 | 1.50 | 0.30 | 0.20 | 0.30 | 0.30 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.30 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | |||
| Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 18.10 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Canada | 1.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.50 | 0.20 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | |||||
| United States of America | 1.00 | 0.50 | 0.70 | 1.00 | 1.20 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.20 | 1.20 | 1.20 | 1.20 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 1.20 | 1.20 |