Number of people, in millions, living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 PPP is calculated by multiplying the poverty rate and the population. 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angola | 6.0 | 15.4 | ||||||||||
| Botswana | 0.3 | |||||||||||
| Comoros | 0.1 | |||||||||||
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 53.3 | |||||||||||
| इस्वातिनी | 0.5 | 0.3 | ||||||||||
| Lesotho | 0.6 | |||||||||||
| Madagascar | 13.2 | 16.5 | 17.6 | |||||||||
| Malawi | 10.3 | 11.9 | ||||||||||
| Mauritius | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| Mozambique | 16.7 | |||||||||||
| Namibia | 0.3 | |||||||||||
| Seychelles | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| South Africa | 15.8 | 12.3 | 8.3 | 10.4 | ||||||||
| United Republic of Tanzania | 28.9 | 23.4 | 27.8 | |||||||||
| Zambia | 9.0 | 9.3 | ||||||||||
| Zimbabwe | 2.8 | 4.8 | 5.8 |