Poverty Ratio ($5.50)

Asia Ranking

percent living on less than 5.50 usd a daySource: IMF

Current Rank	Country	Value	Latest Reading	Previous Rank	Previous Value

1	Uzbekistan	96.4	2003	1	96.1
2 ↑	Turkmenistan	91.7	1998	25
3 ↓	India	87.4	2011	2	91.1
4	Bangladesh	84.2	2016	4	87.6
5 ↓	Nepal	83	2010	3	90.9
6	Pakistan	76.2	2018	6	75.9
7 ↓	Laos	70.4	2018	5	78.7
8 ↑	Kyrgyzstan	58.1	2020	10	52.6
9 ↓	Burma (Myanmar)	54.3	2017	7	62.1
10 ↓	Tajikistan	50.5	2015	8	59.8
11 ↑	Indonesia	50.2	2021	12	50.9
12 ↓	Philippines	46.9	2018	9	54.6
13 ↓	Sri Lanka	42	2016	11	51.7
14 ↓	Bhutan	38.9	2017	13	44.3
15 ↓	Mongolia	27.1	2018	14	29.9
16 ↓	Vietnam	22.4	2018	15	27.2
17 ↓	China	15.8	2019	16	19
18 ↓	Azerbaijan	7	2005	17	13.9
19	Thailand	6.4	2020	19	6.2
20 ↓	Kazakhstan	4.6	2018	18	6.5
21 ↑	Russia	2.9	2020	22	3
21 ↓	Malaysia	2.9	2015	20	4
23 ↓	Maldives	1.7	2019	21	3.6
24	Japan	1.2	2013	24	0.5
25 ↓	South Korea	0.7	2016	23	1

Definition of Poverty Ratio ($5.50)

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.