Zambia Poverty Rate 1991-2025

Zambia poverty rate for 2022 was 93.20%, a 2.2% increase from 2015.
  • Zambia poverty rate for 2015 was 91.00%, a 1.5% decline from 2010.
  • Zambia poverty rate for 2010 was 92.50%, a 0.1% decline from 2006.
  • Zambia poverty rate for 2006 was 92.60%, a 0.7% increase from 2004.
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.