Pakistan Poverty Rate 1987-2025

Pakistan poverty rate for 2018 was 84.50%, a 0.7% increase from 2015.
  • Pakistan poverty rate for 2015 was 83.80%, a 2.7% decline from 2013.
  • Pakistan poverty rate for 2013 was 86.50%, a 2.6% decline from 2011.
  • Pakistan poverty rate for 2011 was 89.10%, a 1.3% decline from 2010.
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.