Poverty gap at national poverty lines (%)

This statistics in other country:

Afghanistan Albania Angola Armenia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Benin Bhutan Bolivia Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cambodia Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Colombia Comoros Congo, Dem. Rep.Congo, Rep.Costa Rica Cote d'Ivoire Ecuador Egypt, Arab Rep.Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Fiji Gabon Gambia, The Georgia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Haiti Honduras India Indonesia Iraq Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kosovo Kyrgyz Republic Lao PDR Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Mauritania Mexico Micronesia, Fed. Sts.Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Pakistan Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Russian Federation Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Solomon Islands South Africa South Sudan Sri Lanka Sudan Swaziland Syrian Arab Republic Tanzania Timor-Leste Togo Tunisia Uganda Uruguay Vietnam West Bank and Gaza Yemen, Rep.Zambia Zimbabwe

Timeline:

This timeline shows a graph from 1998 to 2013 of Lao PDR. No data until 1997. Number of actual observations by date: 4.

Source name:

World Development Indicators

Source organization:

World Bank, Global Poverty Working Group. Data are compiled from official government sources or are computed by World Bank staff using national (i.e. country–specific) poverty lines.

Categories, topics:

Poverty

Last updated:

apr 23, 2017

Indicators value changes by year

Meaning:

7.575

Minimum:

5.5

jan 1, 2013

Maximum:

10.3

jan 1, 1998

At the date of observation

Value

Absolute change

Change from the previous value

jan 1, 1998

10.3

+10.3

0.0%

jan 1, 2003

8.0

-2.3

-22.33%

jan 1, 2008

6.5

-1.5

-18.75%