National poverty line vs. GDP per capita, 2017

The horizontal line indicates the International Poverty Line, set by the World Bank to be representative of national definitions of poverty adopted by low-incomecountries.

Country/area
National poverty line
international-$ at 2017 prices 2017
GDP per capita In constant 2017 international $ – World Bank
international-$ in 2017 prices 2017
Population
people 2017
World Bank income group
2017
Afghanistan$2,09635,688,942
Albania$4.90$12,7712,898,247
Algeria$11,80941,689,304
American Samoa51,606
Andorra73,781
Angola$2.23$7,21630,234,837
Anguilla14,449
Antigua and Barbuda$21,67290,483
Argentina$13.31$23,59744,288,898High income
Armenia$5.12$12,5102,914,967Upper middle income
Aruba$38,868105,736
Australia$33.56$48,41924,731,044
Austria$31.24$54,1738,798,780High income
Azerbaijan$14,1219,968,511
Bahamas$34,068390,497
Bahrain$48,9291,482,004
Bangladesh$2.57$4,831162,186,147
Barbados$16,234280,176
Belarus$7.67$18,3569,495,792Upper middle income
Belgium$30.91$50,44211,376,583High income
Belize$8,799373,216
Benin$1.77$2,93412,039,777
Bermuda$81,83563,602
Bhutan$3.49$11,619754,343Lower middle income
Bolivia$10.46$8,24511,344,592Lower middle income
Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba24,819
Bosnia and Herzegovina$13,5823,428,684
Botswana$14,6572,266,748
Brazil$7.04$14,478204,703,440
British Virgin Islands32,724
Brunei$60,173432,788
Bulgaria$10.87$21,4587,075,639Upper middle income
Burkina Faso$2.16$1,97819,894,413
Burundi$2.14$75111,506,765
Cambodia$3,97316,073,374
Cameroon$2.91$3,69124,128,608
Canada$32.20$48,31736,808,500High income
Cape Verde$5.09$7,131512,899
Cayman Islands$69,53564,562
Central African Republic$8404,793,511
Chad$1,58015,622,758
Chile$7.15$24,54718,558,865High income
China$3.07$14,2441,412,354,742
Colombia$5.81$14,33548,131,076Upper middle income
Comoros$3,240756,672
Congo$4,3465,351,012
Cook Islands17,066
Costa Rica$8.62$20,1684,913,177Upper middle income
Cote d'Ivoire$2.58$4,83626,733,377
Croatia$13.79$27,2684,079,198High income
Cuba11,247,825
Curacao$24,796168,524
Cyprus$23.62$38,2881,254,273High income
Czechia$19.17$38,82510,541,343High income
Czechoslovakia
Democratic Republic of Congo$1.90$1,02487,083,400
Denmark$32.25$55,3575,765,168High income
Djibouti$2.33$4,4521,054,842Lower middle income
Dominica$11,51268,514
Dominican Republic$6.85$16,52510,666,846Upper middle income
East Germany
East Timor$3.59$3,1431,251,710
Ecuador$5.94$11,67916,759,517Upper middle income
Egypt$4.16$10,995103,696,057Lower middle income
El Salvador$5.97$8,6186,213,537Lower middle income
Equatorial Guinea$19,6181,562,401
Eritrea3,150,351
Estonia$21.42$33,8221,317,432High income
Eswatini$3.72$8,2141,158,197
Ethiopia$2.04$1,988109,666,482
Ethiopia (former)
Falkland Islands3,541
Faroe Islands50,267
Fiji$6.42$12,822918,762
Finland$30.85$47,5705,508,399High income
France$27.39$44,57765,284,775High income
French Guiana276,158
French Polynesia280,096
Gabon$7.16$14,4782,156,902Upper middle income
Gambia$3.87$1,9272,342,192
Georgia$3.80$13,5903,792,861Lower middle income
Germany$29.77$53,07183,104,012
Ghana$2.04$4,93030,008,363
Gibraltar34,267
Greece$12.19$28,60510,753,532High income
Greenland56,093
Grenada$14,870115,449
Guadeloupe412,701
Guam163,503
Guatemala$7.38$8,32216,567,362
Guernsey62,215
Guinea$3.40$2,38412,385,668
Guinea-Bissau$1,8721,877,074
Guyana$12,194768,483
Haiti$3.67$3,20010,817,758
Honduras$6.66$5,4489,588,143Lower middle income
Hong Kong$59,8427,444,890
Hungary$11.13$29,4969,785,606High income
Iceland$31.04$55,638343,536High income
India$6,1121,359,657,392
Indonesia$2.41$10,942267,346,655Lower middle income
Iran$15,16385,026,761
Iraq$6.26$9,97739,337,357
Ireland$26.45$78,1694,810,258High income
Isle of Man83,624
Israel$17.03$39,4488,361,796
Italy$22.85$41,58160,390,317High income
Jamaica$9,9852,815,767
Japan$41,444127,064,685
Jersey102,131
Jordan$9,62910,234,227
Kazakhstan$4.59$24,86318,651,930Upper middle income
Kenya$2.41$4,31349,197,760
Kiribati$1,971120,288
Kosovo$6.35$10,4361,768,125Lower middle income
Kuwait$50,0074,154,685
Kyrgyzstan$4.08$5,0476,220,146Lower middle income
Laos$2.85$7,2117,018,149
Latvia$15.22$28,6741,942,599High income
Lebanon$17,8086,160,128
Lesotho$3.22$2,5712,157,116Lower middle income
Liberia$3.13$1,5334,848,927
Libya$24,2136,738,770
Liechtenstein37,871
Lithuania$16.55$33,7622,829,318High income
Luxembourg$36.33$114,986596,505High income
Macao$122,838646,560
Madagascar$1.64$1,54826,788,379
Malawi$1.68$1,45518,039,712
Malaysia$8.00$25,93532,355,642
Maldives$7.75$19,222458,297
Mali$2,15419,813,016
Malta$26.13$43,494467,902High income
Marshall Islands$4,64946,543
Martinique371,510
Mauritania$3.95$5,2594,210,602
Mauritius$6.24$22,1441,290,652Upper middle income
Mayotte265,171
Mexico$8.96$20,582123,400,054
Micronesia (country)$3.66$3,522109,494
Moldova$5.91$11,4643,193,500Lower middle income
Monaco37,700
Mongolia$5.87$11,4313,104,371
Montenegro$8.44$19,682620,115
Montserrat4,624
Morocco$2.91$7,92235,446,396
Mozambique$1.49$1,29228,166,399
Myanmar$3.96$4,67051,894,938Lower middle income
Namibia$2.32$10,3352,506,855
Nauru$9,36011,350
Nepal$3,49628,011,259
Netherlands$31.10$55,08917,315,375High income
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia283,551
New Zealand$42,2054,812,748
Nicaragua$5.27$5,9156,316,236
Niger$1.87$1,15621,435,449
Nigeria$2.52$5,120200,254,578
Niue1,803
North Korea25,817,710
North Macedonia$6.67$15,7071,940,877Upper middle income
Northern Mariana Islands49,981
Norway$37.80$64,5905,276,806High income
Oman$34,2184,537,397
Pakistan$2.99$4,892223,273,975
Palau$17,59517,837
Palestine$8.11$6,4024,742,747
Panama$9.70$31,6384,098,705
Papua New Guinea$3,9679,178,716
Paraguay$7.82$13,6046,338,656Upper middle income
Peru$5.18$12,44331,324,638Upper middle income
Philippines$3.01$8,002108,119,693
Poland$10.02$29,95838,254,964High income
Portugal$15.41$33,04510,330,836High income
Puerto Rico$34,3643,371,879
Qatar$92,1782,706,715
Reunion858,761
Romania$8.73$26,94319,689,406Upper middle income
Russia$9.04$25,926146,186,800Upper middle income
Rwanda$1.73$1,93512,202,062
Saint Barthelemy9,954
Saint Helena5,528
Saint Kitts and Nevis$29,31847,074
Saint Lucia$6.76$15,247176,352
Saint Martin (French part)36,862
Saint Pierre and Miquelon5,946
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines$13,575105,675
Samoa$4.73$6,239205,420
San Marino$58,20234,404
Sao Tome and Principe$4.55$3,373206,986Lower middle income
Saudi Arabia$47,55230,782,402
Senegal$3,25915,475,001
Serbia$7.28$16,6117,073,508Upper middle income
Serbia and Montenegro
Seychelles$12.93$27,337112,444
Sierra Leone$3.24$1,5947,379,300
Singapore$95,3345,604,087
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)$43,05639,012
Slovakia$13.19$30,1425,435,704
Slovenia$22.74$36,5082,062,410High income
Solomon Islands$1.61$2,625685,674
Somalia$1,55814,916,629
South Africa$5.61$13,95057,635,158
South Korea$25.09$40,95751,486,268
South Sudan$2.7510,259,150
Spain$22.10$39,55046,868,594High income
Sri Lanka$2.66$13,54522,087,525
Sudan$4,61442,714,312
Suriname$17,753593,719
Sweden$30.73$51,94810,057,864High income
Switzerland$36.28$68,1948,453,628High income
Syria19,224,670
Taiwan23,632,950
Tajikistan$4.01$3,2369,085,943
Tanzania$1.62$2,45855,652,888Low income
Thailand$5.72$17,00871,160,184Upper middle income
Togo$2.17$1,9708,057,139
Tokelau1,767
Tonga$6,257105,374
Trinidad and Tobago$26,4811,445,265
Tunisia$6.46$10,87511,650,504
Turkey$7.63$28,19383,083,668Upper middle income
Turkmenistan$13,7046,507,065
Turks and Caicos Islands$25,20839,928
Tuvalu$4,23610,892
USSR
Uganda$1.49$2,12840,177,383
Ukraine$4.81$11,86145,436,036Lower middle income
United Arab Emirates$71,1829,234,330
United Kingdom$25.77$46,04866,354,474High income
United States$34.79$59,908332,204,656High income
United States Virgin Islands95,123
Uruguay$8.29$23,3853,388,444High income
Uzbekistan$6,84131,819,172
Vanuatu$3,031278,518
Vatican563
Venezuela30,565,331
Vietnam$4.02$9,05195,176,979
Wallis and Futuna11,945
West Germany
Western Sahara512,852
Yemen$3.3633,090,925
Yemen Arab Republic
Yemen People's Republic
Yugoslavia
Zambia$1.78$3,39517,441,329
Zimbabwe$2.01$2,33214,812,484Low income
Other
Africa1,282,902,302
Africa (UN)1,282,902,108
Akrotiri and Dhekelia
Americas (UN)1,000,714,164
Asia4,571,224,662
Asia (UN)4,572,478,790
Asia (excl. China and India)1,732,068,480
East Asia and Pacific (WB)$16,338
Europe748,683,743
Europe (UN)747,429,208
Europe (excl. Russia)602,646,016
Europe and Central Asia (WB)$34,060
European Union (27)$42,665445,696,792
High-income countries$48,4181,229,624,584
Latin America and Caribbean (WB)$16,075
Latin America and the Caribbean (UN)631,575,440
Low-income countries$1,933624,557,050
Lower-middle-income countries$6,4753,017,492,364
Middle East and North Africa (WB)$16,392
Middle-income countries$10,833
North America583,669,315
North America (WB)$58,741
Northern America (UN)369,138,724
Oceania42,093,978
Oceania (UN)42,093,650
South America417,045,358
South America (excl. Brazil)212,740,160
South Asia (WB)$5,827
Sub-Saharan Africa (WB)$3,824
Svalbard and Jan Mayen2,400
Upper-middle-income countries$15,6222,771,247,027
World$16,1867,645,618,013
National poverty line vs. GDP per capita

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