Benin poverty rate for 2021 was 81.40%, a 2.2% decline from 2018.
Benin poverty rate for 2018 was 83.60%, a 8.2% decline from 2015.
Benin poverty rate for 2015 was 91.80%, a 0.2% decline from 2011.
Benin poverty rate for 2011 was 92.00%, a 3.1% decline from 2003.
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.
