Botswana poverty rate for 2015 was 63.50%, a 3.1% increase from 2009.
Botswana poverty rate for 2009 was 60.40%, a 8.2% decline from 2002.
Botswana poverty rate for 2002 was 68.60%, a 9.7% decline from 1993.
Botswana poverty rate for 1993 was 78.30%, a 5.3% decline from 1985.
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.
