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How many live on less than $3 a day?

Extreme poverty ($3.00 a day), 142 countries & territories. Share of people living on less than $3.00 a day at 2021 prices adjusted for purchasing power (World Bank PIP), from each country’s latest household survey since 2017; some have none.

lowest≥ 0.1%≥ 0.4%≥ 0.9%≥ 2.5%≥ 8.7%≥ 38.2% no data
Source: World Bank· 2017 / 2025

Dots sit on a scale from the lowest (0%) to the highest value (85.3%).

The ranking

  1. 1 DR Congo 85.3% 2020
  2. 2 Mozambique 81.4% 2022
  3. 3 Malawi 75.4% 2019
  4. 4 Burundi 74.2% 2020
  5. 5 Zambia 71.7% 2022
  6. 7 Madagascar 69.2% 2021
  7. 8 Niger 60.5% 2021
  8. 9 Uganda 54.4% 2023
  9. 10 Tanzania 51.3% 2018
  10. 11 Zimbabwe 49.2% 2019
  11. 12 Kenya 45.5% 2022
  12. 13 Burkina Faso 42.1% 2021
  13. 14 Lesotho 41.9% 2017
  14. 15 Nigeria 41.8% 2022
  15. 16 Sierra Leone 41.5% 2018
  16. 17 Guinea-Bissau 39.9% 2021
  17. 18 Chad 39.5% 2022
  18. 19 Angola 39.3% 2018
  19. 20 Ethiopia 38.6% 2021
  20. 21 Rwanda 38.6% 2023
  21. 22 Mali 36.1% 2021
  22. 23 Togo 34.7% 2021
  23. 24 Benin 27.2% 2021
  24. 25 Cameroon 26.7% 2021
  25. 26 Djibouti 25.4% 2017
  26. 27 Pakistan 23% 2024
  27. 28 Gambia 22% 2020
  28. 29 Ivory Coast 20.8% 2021
  29. 30 Vanuatu 19.5% 2019
  30. 31 Syria 18% 2022
  31. 32 Senegal 17.9% 2021
  32. 33 South Africa 17.4% 2022
  33. 34 Honduras 15.7% 2024
  34. 36 Guinea 11.7% 2018
  35. 37 Myanmar 10.3% 2017
  36. 38 Mauritania 10.2% 2019
  37. 39 Kosovo 10% 2022
  38. 40 Guatemala 9.7% 2023
  39. 41 Equatorial Guinea 8.8% 2022
  40. 42 Colombia 8.5% 2024
  41. 43 Laos 7.1% 2024
  42. 44 Tajikistan 6.1% 2024
  43. 45 Bangladesh 5.9% 2022
  44. 46 Lebanon 5.8% 2022
  45. 47 Philippines 5.3% 2023
  46. 48 Comoros 5.1% 2024
  47. 49 Peru 5.1% 2024
  48. 50 Fiji 4.7% 2019

Reference years differ by country (2017–2025); each row shows its own year.