Countries by extreme poverty

Countries by extreme poverty, World Bank, mostly 2023

#	Country	% under $3.00 a day	Year	Region
1	DR Congo	85.3%	2020	Middle Africa
2	Mozambique	81.4%	2022	Eastern Africa
3	South Sudan	76.5%	2016	Eastern Africa
4	Malawi	75.4%	2019	Eastern Africa
5	Burundi	74.2%	2020	Eastern Africa
6	Zambia	71.7%	2022	Eastern Africa
7	Central African Republic	71.6%	2021	Middle Africa
8	Madagascar	69.2%	2021	Eastern Africa
9	Niger	60.5%	2021	Western Africa
10	Uganda	59.8%	2019	Eastern Africa
11	Tanzania	51.3%	2018	Eastern Africa
12	Zimbabwe	49.2%	2019	Eastern Africa
13	Kenya	45.5%	2022	Eastern Africa
14	Eswatini	44.5%	2016	Southern Africa
15	Burkina Faso	42.1%	2021	Western Africa
16	Lesotho	41.9%	2017	Southern Africa
17	Nigeria	41.8%	2022	Western Africa
18	Sierra Leone	41.5%	2018	Western Africa
19	Guinea-Bissau	39.9%	2021	Western Africa
20	Chad	39.5%	2022	Middle Africa
21	Angola	39.3%	2018	Middle Africa
22	Ghana	39.0%	2016	Western Africa
=23	Ethiopia	38.6%	2021	Eastern Africa
=23	Rwanda	38.6%	2023	Eastern Africa
25	Mali	36.1%	2021	Western Africa
26	Togo	34.7%	2021	Western Africa
27	Liberia	33.6%	2016	Western Africa
28	Benin	27.2%	2021	Western Africa
29	Cameroon	26.7%	2021	Middle Africa
30	Djibouti	25.4%	2017	Eastern Africa
31	Pakistan	23.0%	2024	Southern Asia
32	Namibia	22.9%	2015	Southern Africa
33	Gambia	22.0%	2020	Western Africa
34	Botswana	21.4%	2015	Southern Africa
35	Côte d'Ivoire	20.8%	2021	Western Africa
36	Vanuatu	19.5%	2019	Melanesia
37	Syria	18.0%	2022	Western Asia
38	Senegal	17.9%	2021	Western Africa
39	South Africa	17.4%	2022	Southern Africa
40	Honduras	15.7%	2024	Central America
41	Cabo Verde	14.6%	2015	Western Africa
42	São Tomé and Principe	13.0%	2017	Middle Africa
43	Guinea	11.7%	2018	Western Africa
44	Myanmar	10.3%	2017	South-Eastern Asia
45	Mauritania	10.2%	2019	Western Africa
46	Guatemala	9.7%	2023	Central America
47	Equatorial Guinea	8.8%	2022	Middle Africa
48	Colombia	8.5%	2024	South America
49	Laos	7.1%	2024	South-Eastern Asia
50	Tajikistan	6.1%	2024	Central Asia
51	Bangladesh	5.9%	2022	Southern Asia
52	Lebanon	5.8%	2022	Western Asia
=53	India	5.3%	2022	Southern Asia
=53	Philippines	5.3%	2023	South-Eastern Asia
=55	Comoros	5.1%	2024	Eastern Africa
=55	Peru	5.1%	2024	South America
57	Fiji	4.7%	2019	Melanesia
58	El Salvador	4.6%	2023	Central America
59	Georgia	4.2%	2024	Western Asia
60	Indonesia	4.0%	2025	South-Eastern Asia
61	North Macedonia	3.9%	2019	Southern Europe
62	Gabon	3.8%	2017	Middle Africa
63	Ecuador	3.4%	2025	South America
64	Panama	3.1%	2024	Central America
65	Brazil	3.0%	2024	South America
66	Sri Lanka	2.7%	2019	Southern Asia
=67	Iran	2.5%	2023	Southern Asia
=67	Montenegro	2.5%	2021	Southern Europe
69	Nepal	2.4%	2022	Southern Asia
70	Uzbekistan	2.3%	2025	Central Asia
=71	Kyrgyzstan	2.2%	2024	Central Asia
=71	Suriname	2.2%	2022	South America
=73	Bolivia	2.1%	2024	South America
=73	Marshall Islands	2.1%	2019	Micronesia
=73	Paraguay	2.1%	2024	South America
76	Barbados	1.7%	2016	Caribbean
=77	Mexico	1.6%	2024	Central America
=77	Vietnam	1.6%	2022	South-Eastern Asia
=79	Egypt	1.4%	2021	Northern Africa
=79	Jamaica	1.4%	2021	Caribbean
81	Japan	1.2%	2020	Eastern Asia
=82	Lithuania	1.1%	2023	Northern Europe
=82	Serbia	1.1%	2023	Southern Europe
=82	United States	1.1%	2024	Northern America
=85	Argentina	1.0%	2024	South America
=85	Belize	1.0%	2018	Central America
=85	Bulgaria	1.0%	2023	Eastern Europe
=88	Australia	0.9%	2020	Australia and New Zealand
=88	Hungary	0.9%	2017	Eastern Europe
=88	Italy	0.9%	2023	Southern Europe
=88	Kiribati	0.9%	2023	Micronesia
=92	Armenia	0.8%	2024	Western Asia
=92	Costa Rica	0.8%	2025	Central America
=92	Dominican Republic	0.8%	2024	Caribbean
=92	Grenada	0.8%	2018	Caribbean
=92	Spain	0.8%	2023	Southern Europe
=92	Sweden	0.8%	2023	Northern Europe
=98	Germany	0.7%	2022	Western Europe
=98	Romania	0.7%	2023	Eastern Europe
=98	Seychelles	0.7%	2018	Eastern Africa
=98	Tunisia	0.7%	2021	Northern Africa
102	Greece	0.6%	2023	Southern Europe
=103	Austria	0.5%	2023	Western Europe
=103	Iraq	0.5%	2023	Western Asia
=103	Mauritius	0.5%	2017	Eastern Africa
=103	Slovakia	0.5%	2023	Eastern Europe
=107	Chile	0.4%	2024	South America
=107	Denmark	0.4%	2023	Northern Europe
=107	Israel	0.4%	2022	Western Asia
=107	Latvia	0.4%	2023	Northern Europe
=107	Malta	0.4%	2023	Southern Europe
=107	Mongolia	0.4%	2022	Eastern Asia
=107	Portugal	0.4%	2023	Southern Europe
=107	Tonga	0.4%	2021	Polynesia
=107	United Kingdom	0.4%	2021	Northern Europe
=116	Albania	0.3%	2020	Southern Europe
=116	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.3%	2021	Southern Europe
=116	Canada	0.3%	2022	Northern America
=116	Croatia	0.3%	2023	Southern Europe
=116	Estonia	0.3%	2023	Northern Europe
=121	Finland	0.2%	2023	Northern Europe
=121	Norway	0.2%	2023	Northern Europe
=121	Poland	0.2%	2023	Eastern Europe
=121	Switzerland	0.2%	2022	Western Europe
=121	Turkey	0.2%	2023	Western Asia
=121	Uruguay	0.2%	2024	South America
=127	Belgium	0.1%	2023	Western Europe
=127	France	0.1%	2023	Western Europe
=127	Iceland	0.1%	2019	Northern Europe
=127	Ireland	0.1%	2023	Northern Europe
=127	Luxembourg	0.1%	2023	Western Europe
=127	Moldova	0.1%	2023	Eastern Europe
=127	Netherlands	0.1%	2021	Western Europe
=127	Russia	0.1%	2023	Eastern Europe
=127	Saint Lucia	0.1%	2015	Caribbean
=127	South Korea	0.1%	2021	Eastern Asia
=137	Belarus	0.0%	2020	Eastern Europe
=137	Bhutan	0.0%	2022	Southern Asia
=137	China	0.0%	2022	Eastern Asia
=137	Cyprus	0.0%	2023	Western Asia
=137	Czechia	0.0%	2023	Eastern Europe
=137	Kazakhstan	0.0%	2021	Central Asia
=137	Malaysia	0.0%	2021	South-Eastern Asia
=137	Maldives	0.0%	2019	Southern Asia
=137	Qatar	0.0%	2017	Western Asia
=137	Slovenia	0.0%	2023	Southern Europe
=137	Thailand	0.0%	2024	South-Eastern Asia
=137	Ukraine	0.0%	2020	Eastern Europe
=137	United Arab Emirates	0.0%	2018	Western Asia

No World Bank figure for 45 countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Brunei, Cambodia, Congo, Cuba, Dominica, Eritrea, Guyana, Haiti, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Liechtenstein, Micronesia, Monaco, Morocco, Nauru, New Zealand, Nicaragua, North Korea, Oman, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan, Taiwan, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkmenistan, Vatican City, Venezuela, Yemen.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed, and Antarctica. Highest first.

Place	% under $3.00 a day	Status
Palestine	2.1%	Status disputed

Questions

Which country has the most extreme poverty?

The DR Congo has the most extreme poverty: 85.3% under $3.00 a day (2020). Next come Mozambique (81.4% under $3.00 a day) and the South Sudan (76.5% under $3.00 a day).

Which country has the least extreme poverty?

The United Arab Emirates, with 0.0% under $3.00 a day (2018).

What is the typical extreme poverty of a country?

The median of the 149 countries is 2.1% under $3.00 a day: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

The share of people living on less than $3.00 a day — the international poverty line, at 2021 prices adjusted for what money buys in each country. Source: World Bank, mostly 2023. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 10 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.