China poverty rate for 2021 was 17.00%, a 7.8% decline from 2020.
China poverty rate for 2020 was 24.80%, a 0.2% increase from 2019.
China poverty rate for 2019 was 24.60%, a 3.3% decline from 2018.
China poverty rate for 2018 was 27.90%, a 4% decline from 2017.
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.
