Guatemala Poverty Rate 1986-2025

Guatemala poverty rate for 2014 was 55.40%, a 6.8% increase from 2006.
  • Guatemala poverty rate for 2006 was 48.60%, a 1.4% decline from 2000.
  • Guatemala poverty rate for 2000 was 50.00%, a 5.3% decline from 1998.
  • Guatemala poverty rate for 1998 was 55.30%, a 21.2% decline from 1989.
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.