Jordan poverty rate for 2010 was 15.30%, a 5.1% decline from 2008.
Jordan poverty rate for 2008 was 20.40%, a 2% decline from 2006.
Jordan poverty rate for 2006 was 22.40%, a 10.3% decline from 2002.
Jordan poverty rate for 2002 was 32.70%, a 9.9% 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. The full historical dataset is available for download here: Jordan Poverty Rate Datasets (CSV).