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.
| 1970 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| India | 27.10 | 5.30 | |||||||||||||||
| Australia | 0.30 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.50 | |||||||||||||
| Canada | 1.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.50 | 0.20 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | |||
| Bangladesh | 41.40 | 32.30 | 25.10 | 19.50 | 8.00 | ||||||||||||
| Malaysia | 0.40 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||||||||||
| Pakistan | 79.50 | 40.80 | 26.70 | 25.90 | 21.20 | 16.90 | 16.50 | ||||||||||
| Sri Lanka | 23.40 | 6.40 | 3.80 | 2.70 | |||||||||||||
| Botswana | 21.40 | ||||||||||||||||
| Ghana | 60.90 | 41.80 | 39.00 | ||||||||||||||
| Lesotho | 41.90 | ||||||||||||||||
| Nigeria | 38.50 | 37.40 | 35.80 | 34.20 | |||||||||||||
| Rwanda | 82.30 | 74.20 | 70.20 | 65.20 | 63.80 | ||||||||||||
| Jamaica | 11.60 | 0.40 | 1.40 | ||||||||||||||
| Kenya | 44.60 | 37.70 | 44.40 | 46.40 | |||||||||||||
| Sierra Leone | 53.70 | 41.50 | |||||||||||||||
| United Republic of Tanzania | 86.90 | 51.50 | 51.30 | ||||||||||||||
| Uganda | 72.40 | 56.20 | 60.10 | 59.80 | |||||||||||||
| Zambia | 71.40 | 67.90 | 71.70 | ||||||||||||||
| Belize | 1.00 | ||||||||||||||||
| Saint Lucia | 0.10 | ||||||||||||||||
| Cameroon | 29.00 | 26.70 | |||||||||||||||
| South Africa | 47.90 | 42.10 | 29.50 | 31.20 | |||||||||||||
| इस्वातिनी | 65.00 | 44.50 | |||||||||||||||
| Malawi | 72.90 | 71.70 | 75.40 | ||||||||||||||
| Mozambique | 74.40 | 82.20 | |||||||||||||||
| Gambia | 34.20 | 17.10 | 22.00 | ||||||||||||||
| Tonga | 4.60 | 4.00 | 0.40 | ||||||||||||||
| Solomon Islands | 62.20 | 40.30 | |||||||||||||||
| Cyprus | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||
| United Kingdom | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.50 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.50 | |
| Namibia | 22.90 | ||||||||||||||||
| Kiribati | 6.10 | ||||||||||||||||
| Samoa | 4.50 | ||||||||||||||||
| Malta | 0.30 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.30 | 0.40 | 0.10 | 0.10 | ||||
| Mauritius | 1.10 | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||
| Tuvalu | 9.00 | ||||||||||||||||
| Vanuatu | 25.70 | 19.50 | |||||||||||||||
| Seychelles | 1.60 | 0.70 | |||||||||||||||
| Nauru | 9.70 | ||||||||||||||||
| Grenada | 0.80 | ||||||||||||||||
| Barbados | 1.70 |