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.
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 27.00 | 39.30 | ||||||||||||
| Botswana | 21.40 | |||||||||||||
| Comoros | 31.40 | |||||||||||||
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 78.90 | 85.30 | ||||||||||||
| Lesotho | 41.90 | |||||||||||||
| Madagascar | 83.90 | 87.30 | 87.70 | |||||||||||
| Malawi | 72.90 | 71.70 | 75.40 | |||||||||||
| Mauritius | 1.10 | 0.50 | ||||||||||||
| Mozambique | 74.40 | 82.20 | ||||||||||||
| Namibia | 22.90 | |||||||||||||
| Seychelles | 1.60 | 0.70 | ||||||||||||
| South Africa | 47.90 | 42.10 | 29.50 | 31.20 | ||||||||||
| इस्वातिनी | 65.00 | 44.50 | ||||||||||||
| United Republic of Tanzania | 86.90 | 51.50 | 51.30 | |||||||||||
| Zambia | 71.40 | 67.90 | 71.70 | |||||||||||
| Zimbabwe | 35.70 | 44.70 | 49.20 |