The poverty rate in Uruguay - at 6.4 percent in 2022 under the $6.85 (2017 PPP) per day international line - is low compared to the region. However, poverty reduction has stalled in recent years. Despite...
The latest household income and expenditure survey (HIES) used to estimate poverty in Samoa was conducted in 2018. A new 2023 HIES dataset has been collected, but poverty estimates are not yet available...
Poverty is on a declining trend in Georgia, buoyed by recent robust economic growth and labor market improvements. Between 2016 and 2022, the poverty rate, measured by the international poverty line (below...
A tighter labor market is expected to increase wages. While outmigration raises concerns about potential human capital losses, it may also encourage better utilization of domestic human capital. Addressing...
Poverty and inequality levels in Zambia are among the highest in the world. In 2022, 64.3 percent of the population - about 12.9 million individuals - was living on less than $2.15 a day, while the Gini...
Poverty has remained nearly stagnant in Niger, with a national poverty incidence of approximately 41 percent from 2018 to 2021. However, due to a high annual population growth rate of 3.7 percent, this...
The national poverty rate was last reported for Yemen in 2014 and was estimated to be 48.6 percent of the population, which represents an increase of 13.4 percentage points over the poverty rate reported...
Strong economic growth, improvements in labor incomes and in educational attainment, and the expansion of social protection programs helped significantly reduce Namibia’s poverty rate between 2003-04 and...
Nicaragua enjoyed steady gross domestic product (GDP) growth at 4 percent on average between 2000 and 2018. The economy is expected to slow in 2024 and stabilize in the medium term. Growth prospects are...
The stagnation of poverty incidence (and the rise in inequality) occurred despite moderate economic growth, which averaged 3.5 percent over the past decade. This is partly due to barriers in the labor...
According to the fourth Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS-IV) (2022-23), Nepal has continued to experience a substantial reduction in poverty over the last decade. Living standards have improved across...
From 2006 to 2014, Tanzania experienced balanced economic growth driven by capital accumulation, labor accumulation, and total factor productivity (TFP). This growth led to significant structural transformation...
Although notable progress has been made in reducing poverty since 1994, poverty reduction came to a halt in 2011. The latest survey conducted in 2014-2015 shows that 55.5 percent of the population was...
Guinea-Bissau’s socio-economic landscape is marked by persistent challenges in poverty reduction, economic development, and social advancement. The agriculture sector, particularly the production of raw...
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...
In Tunisia, official poverty rates are derived from consumption patterns as reported in the 2021 National Survey on the Budget, Consumption, and Standard of Living of Households (EBCNV) including detailed...
The latest household income and expenditure survey (HIES) used to estimate poverty in Vanuatu was conducted in 2019-20, with a HIES before that occurring in 2010. The poverty rate based on the lower-middle-income...
Between 2011 and 2017, extreme poverty - calculated using the national food poverty line - rose from 23 to 30 percent of the population. It increased further to 38 percent in April-May 2019. Recent developments...
The national Gini Index (spatial deflated) is relatively low (27.2 in 2018-19) compared to peer countries in the WAEMU region, where it ranges from 31.6 for Guinea Bissau to 38.6 for Burkina Faso. However...
The latest household income and expenditure survey (HIES) used to estimate poverty in Tuvalu was conducted in 2015/16. However, the data presented in this brief refer to the previous HIES in 2010, as substantial...