Poverty at the national line in Afghanistan in 2019 — 47.1%. Ranked 60 in the world out of 62. Since 2007, the indicator has risen by 13.4 pp.
2007–2019 · % of population
| Year | % | Change, pp |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 47.1 | — |
| 2016 | 54.5 | — |
| 2011 | 38.3 | — |
| 2007 | 33.7 | — |
The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages
The share of the population below the national poverty line — the one a country has defined in its legislation or in the methodology of its statistical office. The indicator answers a question the international lines do not ask: how many people are poor by the standards of their own society. That is exactly why it is unfit for comparing countries with one another — yet it shows better than any other indicator how a country assesses poverty at home, and it is what the results of national policy are judged by.
Important: There are no aggregates for country groups, and this is not a gap: poverty lines differ between countries, and a sum of shares computed against different lines has no definition. For comparing countries there are the three international lines.
Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank), license CC BY 4.0.
