Maldives poverty rate for 2019 was 3.90%, a 1.6% decline from 2016.
Maldives poverty rate for 2016 was 5.50%, a 45% decline from 2009.
Maldives poverty rate for 2009 was 50.50%, a 20.8% decline from 2002.
Maldives poverty rate for 2002 was 71.30%, a 71.3% 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.
