Iraq Poverty Rate 2006-2025

Iraq poverty rate for 2012 was 24.70%, a 1.7% decline from 2006.
  • Iraq poverty rate for 2006 was 26.40%, a 26.4% increase from .
  • Iraq poverty rate for was 0.00%, a 0% increase from .
  • Iraq poverty rate for was 0.00%, a 0% increase from .
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.
Country Rankings
Country Name Percent Under US 5.50 Per Day
Madagascar 98.20%
Democratic Republic of Congo 97.40%
Guinea 90.50%
Nigeria 90.50%
Uganda 89.50%
Solomon Islands 88.50%
Haiti 85.80%
Ghana 80.50%
Indonesia 80.00%
Lao PDR 78.80%
Djibouti 76.00%
Kyrgyz Republic 73.30%
Egypt 67.80%
Georgia 65.50%
Philippines 64.90%
Nauru 61.70%
Sri Lanka 61.50%
Honduras 56.90%
Armenia 55.20%
China 54.00%
El Salvador 47.10%
Bhutan 44.90%
Kosovo 42.40%
Dominican Republic 41.20%
Vietnam 40.70%
Colombia 39.80%
Mexico 37.30%
Albania 36.70%
North Macedonia 35.70%
Peru 35.30%
Mongolia 34.00%
Romania 33.60%
Ecuador 31.40%
Brazil 28.20%
Paraguay 27.00%
Montenegro 26.30%
Moldova 25.90%
Serbia 25.00%
Iraq 24.70%
Bolivia 23.70%
Thailand 22.50%
Iran 19.70%
Mauritius 19.40%
Kazakhstan 19.00%
Panama 18.80%
Costa Rica 15.60%
Bulgaria 14.10%
Ukraine 11.00%
Latvia 10.40%
Argentina 8.60%
Croatia 8.10%
Uruguay 7.80%
Hungary 7.80%
Greece 7.20%
Lithuania 7.00%
Israel 6.70%
Belarus 5.90%
Portugal 5.50%
Slovak Republic 4.50%
Poland 4.30%
Estonia 4.10%
Spain 3.40%
Italy 3.10%
United States 2.00%
South Korea 1.70%
Ireland 1.30%
Sweden 1.20%
Austria 1.10%
Czech Republic 0.90%
Canada 0.70%
United Kingdom 0.70%
Belgium 0.50%
Malta 0.40%
Denmark 0.40%
Luxembourg 0.30%
Iceland 0.30%
Slovenia 0.30%
France 0.30%
Norway 0.30%
Germany 0.20%
Finland 0.20%
Netherlands 0.20%
Cyprus 0.10%
Switzerland 0.00%