Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $1.90 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.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.9 a day based on purchasing-power-parity (%)

2000200520102014201520162017
Botswana14.5
इस्वातिनी48.929.2
Lesotho27.2
Namibia13.8
South Africa34.825.716.218.7