Poverty Ratio ($5.50)

Carribean Ranking

percent living on less than 5.50 usd a daySource: IMF

Current Rank	Country	Value	Latest Reading	Previous Rank	Previous Value

1 ↑	Haiti	78.6	2012	6
2	Belize	51.1	1999	2	56.1
3 ↑	Trinidad and Tobago	31.9	1992	4	21.5
4 ↓	Jamaica	29.3	2004	3	33.6
5 ↓	Saint Lucia	19.9	2016	1	85.3
6 ↓	Dominican Republic	15.2	2020	5	12.4

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.