East Asia & Pacific poverty rate for 2022 was 27.40%, a 0.4% decline from 2021.
East Asia & Pacific poverty rate for 2021 was 27.80%, a 5.1% decline from 2020.
East Asia & Pacific poverty rate for 2020 was 32.90%, a 0.5% increase from 2019.
East Asia & Pacific poverty rate for 2019 was 32.40%, a 2.6% decline from 2018.
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.