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 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Botswana | 59.1 | ||||||
| इस्वातिनी | 85.4 | 72.0 | |||||
| Lesotho | 73.2 | ||||||
| Namibia | 51.0 | ||||||
| South Africa | 70.2 | 67.7 | 56.0 | 56.9 |