Eswatini Poverty Rate (1994-2016)

Eswatini poverty rate for 2016 was 79.30%, a 8.8% decline from 2009.
  • Eswatini poverty rate for 2009 was 88.10%, a 2.3% decline from 2000.
  • Eswatini poverty rate for 2000 was 90.40%, a 7.6% decline from 1994.
  • Eswatini poverty rate for 1994 was 98.00%, a 98% increase from .
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.