Australia Poverty Rate 1981-2025

Australia poverty rate for 2018 was 1.00%, a 0% increase from 2016.
  • Australia poverty rate for 2016 was 1.00%, a 0% increase from 2014.
  • Australia poverty rate for 2014 was 1.00%, a 0% increase from 2010.
  • Australia poverty rate for 2010 was 1.00%, a 0.3% increase from 2008.
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.