Burundi Poverty Rate (1992-2020)

Burundi poverty rate for 2020 was 97.40%, a 0.3% increase from 2013.
  • Burundi poverty rate for 2013 was 97.10%, a 1.4% decline from 2006.
  • Burundi poverty rate for 2006 was 98.50%, a 0.4% increase from 1998.
  • Burundi poverty rate for 1998 was 98.10%, a 1% decline from 1992.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 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.