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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 31.5 | 25.0 | 14.1 | 11.6 | 10.7 | 10.8 | 11.8 | 11.5 | 9.9 | 12.3 | 14.4 | ||
| Bolivia | 62.0 | 51.9 | 27.9 | 28.0 | 25.8 | 24.8 | 25.4 | 25.9 | 25.7 | 23.4 | 19.9 | ||
| Brazil | 57.6 | 37.9 | 23.8 | 21.1 | 19.3 | 17.6 | 18.6 | 20.0 | 20.2 | 19.8 | 19.6 | ||
| Canada | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | |||||
| Chile | 45.6 | 30.4 | 12.0 | 6.6 | 5.1 | 3.6 | |||||||
| Colombia | 54.1 | 47.5 | 38.5 | 35.7 | 34.3 | 32.2 | 30.0 | 29.0 | 28.7 | 28.1 | 28.2 | 29.4 | |
| Costa Rica | 40.7 | 30.5 | 21.0 | 13.2 | 13.7 | 12.7 | 12.8 | 12.3 | 12.0 | 10.8 | 9.9 | 11.2 | 10.6 |
| Dominican Republic | 30.2 | 36.8 | 31.8 | 31.0 | 30.8 | 29.9 | 25.2 | 21.8 | 19.9 | 15.9 | 13.9 | 12.4 | |
| Ecuador | 72.7 | 46.5 | 34.5 | 30.2 | 27.6 | 27.2 | 23.8 | 24.8 | 24.0 | 23.3 | 24.2 | 25.4 | |
| El Salvador | 45.1 | 45.5 | 42.1 | 42.1 | 39.5 | 35.6 | 35.5 | 32.6 | 31.4 | 29.5 | 26.3 | 22.3 | |
| Guatemala | 45.1 | 49.1 | |||||||||||
| Haiti | 78.6 | ||||||||||||
| Honduras | 82.1 | 61.4 | 50.6 | 50.8 | 56.2 | 53.8 | 52.5 | 52.2 | 49.7 | 50.3 | 50.4 | 49.0 | |
| Jamaica | 49.5 | ||||||||||||
| Mexico | 43.8 | 36.7 | 33.3 | 31.6 | 33.3 | 25.4 | 22.7 | ||||||
| Nicaragua | 54.4 | 35.4 | |||||||||||
| Panama | 35.2 | 34.7 | 21.8 | 18.5 | 18.9 | 18.2 | 16.9 | 15.4 | 14.6 | 14.1 | 12.6 | 12.1 | |
| Paraguay | 17.0 | 33.6 | 28.7 | 27.1 | 22.4 | 19.1 | 18.6 | 18.9 | 19.2 | 17.0 | 15.6 | 15.4 | |
| Peru | 52.6 | 52.5 | 31.5 | 29.5 | 26.9 | 26.3 | 25.3 | 24.4 | 24.6 | 24.2 | 22.3 | 20.6 | |
| Saint Lucia | 19.9 | ||||||||||||
| United States of America | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.7 | ||
| Uruguay | 9.2 | 17.6 | 8.6 | 5.9 | 5.5 | 5.0 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.2 | |
| Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 45.2 |