Population below $3.1 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.1 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 | 40.30 | 53.70 | ||||||||||||
| Botswana | 35.80 | |||||||||||||
| Comoros | 47.70 | |||||||||||||
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 88.60 | 92.50 | ||||||||||||
| Lesotho | 56.80 | |||||||||||||
| Madagascar | 91.70 | 93.20 | 93.60 | |||||||||||
| Malawi | 85.20 | 85.10 | 87.30 | |||||||||||
| Mauritius | 3.40 | 2.30 | ||||||||||||
| Mozambique | 84.30 | 89.40 | ||||||||||||
| Namibia | 35.00 | |||||||||||||
| Seychelles | 3.60 | 1.40 | ||||||||||||
| South Africa | 59.30 | 56.20 | 42.80 | 44.50 | ||||||||||
| इस्वातिनी | 76.70 | 58.30 | ||||||||||||
| United Republic of Tanzania | 94.00 | 72.00 | 70.00 | |||||||||||
| Zambia | 81.40 | 78.40 | 81.40 | |||||||||||
| Zimbabwe | 53.50 | 61.80 | 64.60 |