Yemen Poverty Rate 1998-2025

Yemen poverty rate for 2014 was 85.40%, a 3.7% increase from 2005.
  • Yemen poverty rate for 2005 was 81.70%, a 12.6% increase from 1998.
  • Yemen poverty rate for 1998 was 69.10%, a 69.1% increase from .
  • Yemen poverty rate for was 0.00%, a 0% 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.