The Lao People's Democratic Republic made significant progress in poverty reduction between 2007 and 2018, reflecting strong economic growth. Despite recent improvements, macroeconomic imbalances persist...
Type: BriefReport#: 200675Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Poverty reduction in Moldova is stagnating, with absolute poverty based on the national methodology rising from 25.2 percent in 2019 to 31.6 percent in 2023. Poverty remains particularly persistent in...
Type: BriefReport#: 200682Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The official multidimensional poverty rate in Mexico, which considers both monetary poverty and six indicators of social deprivation, decreased from 43.2 percent in 2016 to 36.3 percent in 2022. The labor...
Type: BriefReport#: 200685Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The poverty rate in Mozambique experienced a marked increase, with the proportion of individuals living below the global poverty threshold of US$2.15 daily (2017 PPP) reaching 74.5 percent in 2019/20,...
Type: BriefReport#: 200692Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The poverty headcount rate in Vanuatu was estimated to be 34.9 percent in 2019, based on the latest household income expenditure survey (HIES) and the lower middle-income poverty line of $3.65 (2017 PPP...
Type: BriefReport#: 200757Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
According to the latest Household Budget Survey (2022), 80 percent of the population in South Sudan lives below the national poverty line, making the country one of the poorest in the world. Nowcasts suggest...
Type: BriefReport#: 200736Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The national poverty rate in Tajikistan declined from 55 percent in 2010 to just over 20 percent in 2023, an impressive achievement by regional and global standards. This reduction has been driven by private...
Type: BriefReport#: 200745Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
In Tunisia, the most recent official poverty and inequality figures have been calculated by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) using consumption data from the 2021 National Survey on the Budget,...
Type: BriefReport#: 200748Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Over the past decade, India has significantly reduced poverty, with extreme poverty (living on less than $2.15 per day) falling from 16.2 percent in 2011-12 to 2.3 percent in 2022-23, lifting 171 million...
Type: BriefReport#: 200766Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Over the last two decades, Afghanistan's economic growth has been volatile, failing to benefit all segments of society. The Interim Taliban Administration's restrictive policies are exacerbating existing...
Type: BriefReport#: 200765Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
North Macedonia has made considerable gains in poverty reduction since the 2008 global financial crisis. However, post-pandemic poverty reduction has been constrained by decelerating growth and the erosion...
Type: BriefReport#: 200687Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Poverty in Ghana fell considerably up until the COVID-19 pandemic. However, moderate growth due to larger fiscal adjustments, global economic and trade uncertainties, and persistent inflation will affect...
Type: BriefReport#: 200656Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Bulgaria has made significant progress in reducing absolute poverty since its EU accession, particularly between 2015 and 2022, when real median incomes rose substantially. In the fourth quarter of 2024,...
Type: BriefReport#: 200627Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Poverty measured by the World Bank’s upper-middle-income poverty line of $6.85 in 2017PPP remained low in Belarus, at 1.3 percent in 2020, similar to its neighbors Lithuania (1.23 percent in 2021) and...
Type: BriefReport#: 200628Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
In 2024, 28.4 percent of the population in Mauritania was living in poverty, measured at the international poverty line of $3.65 per day in PPP 2017, an increase from 26.3 percent in 2020. Over half of...
Type: BriefReport#: 200693Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
The latest Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) used to estimate poverty in Kiribati was conducted from April 2019 to March 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic did not have a large impact on economic...
Type: BriefReport#: 200674Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
In 2016, 50.9 percent of Liberia's population lived below the national poverty line. Since 2022, poverty has begun to decline but is expected to remain above pre-COVID-19 levels until 2026. The recovery...
Type: BriefReport#: 200677Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Based on the most recent official household survey data from Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics, 30.9 percent of Nigerians lived below the international extreme poverty line of $2.15 per person per...
Type: BriefReport#: 200719Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Between 2011 and 2017, extreme poverty in Zimbabwe - calculated using the national food poverty line rose from 23 to 30 percent of the population, and increased further to 38 percent in April-May 2019....
Type: BriefReport#: 200763Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
Papua New Guinea (PNG) does not have recent and reliable national poverty estimates, as the last Household and Income Survey (HIES) was completed in 2009-10, making the poverty estimates in this brief...
Type: BriefReport#: 200724Date: April 30, 2025Author:
World Bank
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