Nicaragua poverty rate for 2014 was 42.10%, a 15% decline from 2009.
Nicaragua poverty rate for 2009 was 57.10%, a 3.9% decline from 2005.
Nicaragua poverty rate for 2005 was 61.00%, a 8% decline from 2001.
Nicaragua poverty rate for 2001 was 69.00%, a 5.2% decline from 1998.
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.