Sub-Saharan Africa poverty rate for 2019 was 87.30%, a 0% increase from 2018.
Sub-Saharan Africa poverty rate for 2018 was 87.30%, a 0.1% decline from 2017.
Sub-Saharan Africa poverty rate for 2017 was 87.40%, a 0.1% decline from 2016.
Sub-Saharan Africa poverty rate for 2016 was 87.50%, a 0% increase from 2015.
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.