Botswana Poverty Rate | Chart & Data

Botswana Poverty Rate (1985-2015)

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Botswana poverty rate for 2015 was 63.20%, a 0.5% increase from 2009.

Botswana poverty rate for 2009 was 62.70%, a 7.9% decline from 2002.
Botswana poverty rate for 2002 was 70.60%, a 9.5% decline from 1993.
Botswana poverty rate for 1993 was 80.10%, a 4.9% decline from 1985.

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.