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.
| 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | ||
| Bolivia | 2.4 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | ||
| Brazil | 32.1 | 16.0 | 9.3 | 7.4 | 6.2 | 5.5 | 6.4 | 8.0 | 9.2 | 9.3 | 9.7 | ||
| Canada | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||||
| Chile | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||||||
| Colombia | 6.6 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.5 | |
| Costa Rica | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Dominican Republic | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
| Ecuador | 3.6 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | |
| El Salvador | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
| Guatemala | 1.1 | 1.3 | |||||||||||
| Haiti | 2.5 | ||||||||||||
| Honduras | 2.2 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.4 | |
| Jamaica | 0.1 | ||||||||||||
| Mexico | 8.9 | 7.0 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 2.7 | 2.2 | ||||||
| Nicaragua | 0.5 | 0.2 | |||||||||||
| Panama | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
| Paraguay | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
| Peru | 4.3 | 4.3 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.7 | |
| Saint Lucia | 0.0 | ||||||||||||
| United States of America | 2.1 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 4.1 | 3.3 | ||
| Uruguay | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 3.7 |