Georgia Poverty Rate 1996-2025

Georgia poverty rate for 2022 was 47.70%, a 7.7% decline from 2021.
  • Georgia poverty rate for 2021 was 55.40%, a 2.9% decline from 2020.
  • Georgia poverty rate for 2020 was 58.30%, a 4.1% increase from 2019.
  • Georgia poverty rate for 2019 was 54.20%, a 0.3% increase from 2018.
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.