Thailand Poverty Rate 1981-2025

Thailand poverty rate for 2021 was 12.20%, a 1% decline from 2020.
  • Thailand poverty rate for 2020 was 13.20%, a 0.1% increase from 2019.
  • Thailand poverty rate for 2019 was 13.10%, a 2.5% decline from 2018.
  • Thailand poverty rate for 2018 was 15.60%, a 0.5% increase from 2017.
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.