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.
| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costa Rica | 10.2 | 6.7 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 1.0 |
| Dominican Republic | 5.5 | 5.7 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
| El Salvador | 12.4 | 10.6 | 5.7 | 4.7 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 1.5 | 1.3 | |
| Guatemala | 9.3 | 8.8 | |||||||||||
| Honduras | 45.0 | 27.1 | 15.6 | 16.0 | 19.0 | 16.4 | 15.2 | 14.9 | 16.1 | 15.4 | 15.8 | 14.8 | |
| Nicaragua | 8.5 | 3.4 | |||||||||||
| Panama | 12.3 | 9.9 | 4.5 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 1.2 |