Benin - Poverty headcount ratio

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population)

Definition: Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.

Source: World Bank, Development Research Group. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For mor

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Year Value
2003 51.40
2011 53.20
2015 49.60
2018 19.20

Poverty headcount ratio at $3.20 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population)

Definition: Poverty headcount ratio at $3.20 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.20 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.

Source: World Bank, Development Research Group. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For mor

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Year Value
2003 79.80
2011 76.80
2015 76.20
2018 51.30

Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population)

The value for Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) in Benin was 38.50 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 13 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 40.10 in 2015 and a minimum value of 33.00 in 2007.

Definition: National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty lines. National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates from household surveys.

Source: 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.

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Year Value
2006 37.50
2007 33.00
2010 35.20
2011 36.20
2015 40.10
2019 38.50

Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population)

Definition: Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.

Source: World Bank, Development Research Group. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For mor

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Year Value
2003 93.80
2011 90.10
2015 90.60
2018 79.30

Classification

Topic: Poverty Indicators

Sub-Topic: Poverty rates