Jordan poverty rate for 2010 was 8.20%, a 3.8% decline from 2008.
Jordan poverty rate for 2008 was 12.00%, a 1.5% decline from 2006.
Jordan poverty rate for 2006 was 13.50%, a 9.3% decline from 2002.
Jordan poverty rate for 2002 was 22.80%, a 8.8% decline from 1997.
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.