World’s Poorest Countries – $1

%age of people living on less than USD1 a day

  • Madagascar – 43.18%
  • Zambia – 34.33%
  • Uzbekistan – 34.32%
  • DR Congo – 29.35%
  • South Sudan – 29.1%
  • CAR – 27.95%
  • Mozambique – 25.69%
  • Somalia – 24.9%
  • Micronesia – 24.77%
  • Malawi – 23.15%
  • Honduras – 22%

The World Bank Data

Data taken from “Our World in Data”

Data set for 2019

The share of population – expected to have gone up post the Covid pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war

$2.15 a day – International Poverty Line  

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