Arab Region | Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, 2011 PPP, as a percentage of the population (Arab countries, 1990– 2019)

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.
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Arab Region | Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, 2011 PPP, as a percentage of the population (Arab countries, 1990– 2019)
Location Year value
Comoros 2004 14.6
Comoros 2014 18.6
Djibouti 2002 22.5
Djibouti 2012 19.7
Djibouti 2013 24.9
Djibouti 2017 19.1
Mauritania 1993 42.8
Mauritania 1995 21.8
Mauritania 2000 21.5
Mauritania 2004 18.1
Mauritania 2008 11.8
Mauritania 2014 6.5
Palestine 2004 0.6
Palestine 2005 0.2
Palestine 2006 0.3
Palestine 2007 1.4
Palestine 2009 0.3
Palestine 2010 0
Palestine 2011 0.2
Palestine 2016 0.5
Sudan 2009 18.6
Sudan 2014 15.3
Tunisia 1990 8.6
Tunisia 1995 9.5
Tunisia 2000 4.4
Tunisia 2005 2.6
Tunisia 2010 1.5
Tunisia 2015 0.1
Algeria 1995 5.8
Algeria 2011 0.5
Egypt 1990 5.3
Egypt 1995 3
Egypt 1999 1.4
Egypt 2004 3.1
Egypt 2008 2.9
Egypt 2010 1
Egypt 2012 0.9
Egypt 2015 0.9
Egypt 2017 2.5
Egypt 2019 1.5
Iraq 2006 0
Iraq 2012 0.1
Jordan 1992 0.6
Jordan 1997 0.4
Jordan 2002 0.2
Jordan 2006 0.1
Jordan 2008 0
Jordan 2010 0
Lebanon 2011 0
Morocco 1990 4.7
Morocco 1998 8.4
Morocco 2000 7.9
Morocco 2006 4.2
Morocco 2013 1.4
Syria 1996 2.5
Syria 2003 1.1
Yemen 1998 8.1
Yemen 2005 10.5
Yemen 2014 19.8
United Arab Emirates 2013 0
United Arab Emirates 2018 0
Somalia 2017 68.6

Arab Region | Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, 2011 PPP, as a percentage of the population (Arab countries, 1990– 2019)

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.
Publisher
Arab Development Portal
Origin
Arab Region
Records
62
Source