Arab Region | Poverty headcount ratio at $3.20 a day, 2011 PPP, as a percentage of the population (Arab countries, 1990– 2019)
Poverty headcount ratio at $3.20 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.20 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.
Arab Region | Poverty headcount ratio at $3.20 a day, 2011 PPP, as a percentage of the population (Arab countries, 1990– 2019)
| Location | Year | value |
|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 1995 | 24.2 |
| Algeria | 2011 | 4 |
| Comoros | 2004 | 37.3 |
| Comoros | 2014 | 39.5 |
| Djibouti | 2002 | 51.6 |
| Djibouti | 2012 | 42.2 |
| Djibouti | 2013 | 47.8 |
| Djibouti | 2017 | 43.8 |
| Egypt | 1990 | 33.9 |
| Egypt | 1995 | 33.9 |
| Egypt | 1999 | 20.1 |
| Egypt | 2004 | 28.1 |
| Egypt | 2008 | 26 |
| Egypt | 2010 | 17.8 |
| Egypt | 2012 | 13.7 |
| Egypt | 2015 | 13.2 |
| Egypt | 2017 | 22 |
| Egypt | 2019 | 17.6 |
| Iraq | 2006 | 2.1 |
| Iraq | 2012 | 2.4 |
| Jordan | 1992 | 6.9 |
| Jordan | 1997 | 4.2 |
| Jordan | 2002 | 2.7 |
| Jordan | 2006 | 0.9 |
| Jordan | 2008 | 0.6 |
| Jordan | 2010 | 0.4 |
| Lebanon | 2011 | 0.1 |
| Mauritania | 1993 | 71.4 |
| Mauritania | 1995 | 51.8 |
| Mauritania | 2000 | 49.1 |
| Mauritania | 2004 | 49.3 |
| Mauritania | 2008 | 36.7 |
| Mauritania | 2014 | 26.2 |
| Morocco | 1990 | 24.5 |
| Morocco | 1998 | 31.7 |
| Morocco | 2000 | 32.5 |
| Morocco | 2006 | 20.2 |
| Morocco | 2013 | 9.8 |
| Sudan | 2009 | 47.8 |
| Sudan | 2014 | 49.7 |
| Syria | 1996 | 19.3 |
| Syria | 2003 | 11.9 |
| Tunisia | 1990 | 26.9 |
| Tunisia | 1995 | 28.2 |
| Tunisia | 2000 | 19.7 |
| Tunisia | 2005 | 12.7 |
| Tunisia | 2010 | 7.4 |
| Tunisia | 2015 | 2.2 |
| Palestine | 2004 | 3.6 |
| Palestine | 2005 | 3.2 |
| Palestine | 2006 | 2 |
| Palestine | 2007 | 5.1 |
| Palestine | 2009 | 1.7 |
| Palestine | 2010 | 2 |
| Palestine | 2011 | 1.8 |
| Palestine | 2016 | 3.1 |
| Yemen | 1998 | 29.6 |
| Yemen | 2005 | 40.7 |
| Yemen | 2014 | 54.4 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2013 | 0 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2018 | 0 |
Arab Region | Poverty headcount ratio at $3.20 a day, 2011 PPP, as a percentage of the population (Arab countries, 1990– 2019)
Poverty headcount ratio at $3.20 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.20 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.