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.