Guinea-Bissau Poverty Rate 1991-2025

Guinea-Bissau poverty rate for 2021 was 89.10%, a 1.9% increase from 2018.
  • Guinea-Bissau poverty rate for 2018 was 87.20%, a 7.1% decline from 2010.
  • Guinea-Bissau poverty rate for 2010 was 94.30%, a 2.5% decline from 2002.
  • Guinea-Bissau poverty rate for 2002 was 96.80%, a 6.2% increase from 1993.
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.