Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Argentina

Poverty at the national line in Argentina in 2024 — 38.1%. Ranked 23 in the world out of 24. Since 2016, the indicator has risen by 7.8 pp.

2024 38.1% −3.6 pp vs 2023
World rank 23of 24
Period maximum 42%2020
Period minimum 25.7%2017

Trend over time

2016–2024 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Argentina, 2016–202425303540452016201720182019202020212022202320242016: 30.3%2017: 25.7%2018: 32%2019: 35.5%2020: 42%2021: 37.3%2022: 39.2%2023: 41.7%2024: 38.1%
Change over the period: +7.8 pp Annual average: 0.98 pp
Poverty at the national line — Argentina, by year Argentina All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 38.1 −3.6 pp
2023 41.7 +2.5 pp
2022 39.2 +1.9 pp
2021 37.3 −4.7 pp
2020 42 +6.5 pp
2019 35.5 +3.5 pp
2018 32 +6.3 pp
2017 25.7 −4.6 pp
2016 30.3

South America, 2024

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

About the indicator

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.