Sri Lanka poverty rate for 2019 was 49.30%, a 3.5% decline from 2016.
Sri Lanka poverty rate for 2016 was 52.80%, a 8.7% decline from 2012.
Sri Lanka poverty rate for 2012 was 61.50%, a 5.9% decline from 2009.
Sri Lanka poverty rate for 2009 was 67.40%, a 2% decline from 2006.
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.
