South Asia poverty rate for 2022 was 78.80%, a 2.1% decline from 2021.
South Asia poverty rate for 2021 was 80.90%, a 1% decline from 2020.
South Asia poverty rate for 2020 was 81.90%, a 1.5% increase from 2019.
South Asia poverty rate for 2019 was 80.40%, a 1.9% 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.