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Share of people living on less than 3.00 U.S. dollars worldwide from 1990 to 2024, by region (in 2021 PPP)

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Release date

January 2026

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

1990 to 2024

Number of respondents

169 countries

Supplementary notes

The World Bank's poverty data is based on more than 2,000 household surveys in 169 countries. For more information on methodology, please visit the source page.

The World Bank officially stopped using the 2.15 U.S. dollars a day poverty line (based on 2017 PPPs) and switched to the 3.00 U.S. dollars a day line (based on 2021 PPPs) in June 2025. 

Missing values=Data unavailable. No data available for North America.

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Poverty rate worldwide 1990-2024, by region

Published by S. Galan, Feb 16, 2026

Most remarkably, the poverty rate in East Asia & The Pacific fell from over ** percent in 1990 to *** percent in 2024, underlining the rapid increase of living standards in the region over the past three decades. Also, South Asia has seen a remarkable reduction in poverty during the period, from around ** percent in 1990 to less than * percent in 2024. As of 2024, Sub-Saharan Africa was the region with the highest share of people living on less than 3.00 U.S. dollars per day, but also here, there has been a poverty reduction since 1990.

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