Rwanda Poverty Rate 2000-2025

Rwanda poverty rate for 2016 was 92.20%, a 0.7% decline from 2013.
  • Rwanda poverty rate for 2013 was 92.90%, a 0.5% decline from 2010.
  • Rwanda poverty rate for 2010 was 93.40%, a 0.5% decline from 2005.
  • Rwanda poverty rate for 2005 was 93.90%, a 2.1% decline from 2000.
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.