Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Armenia

Poverty at the national line in Armenia in 2024 — 21.7%. Ranked 16 in the world out of 24. Since 2004, the indicator has fallen by 31.8 pp.

2024 21.7% −4.8 pp vs 2021
World rank 16of 24
Period maximum 53.5%2004
Period minimum 21.7%2024

Trend over time

2004–2024 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Armenia, 2004–20242030405060200420062008201020122014201620182020202220242004: 53.5%2005: 40.1%2006: 30.2%2007: 26.4%2008: 27.6%2009: 34.1%2010: 35.8%2011: 35%2012: 32.4%2013: 32%2014: 30%2015: 29.8%2016: 29.4%2017: 25.7%2018: 23.5%2019: 26.4%2020: 27%2021: 26.5%2024: 21.7%
Change over the period: −31.8 pp Annual average: -1.59 pp
Poverty at the national line — Armenia, by year Armenia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 21.7
2021 26.5 −0.5 pp
2020 27 +0.6 pp
2019 26.4 +2.9 pp
2018 23.5 −2.2 pp
2017 25.7 −3.7 pp
2016 29.4 −0.4 pp
2015 29.8 −0.2 pp
2014 30 −2 pp
2013 32 −0.4 pp
2012 32.4 −2.6 pp
2011 35 −0.8 pp
2010 35.8 +1.7 pp
2009 34.1 +6.5 pp
2008 27.6 +1.2 pp
2007 26.4 −3.8 pp
2006 30.2 −9.9 pp
2005 40.1 −13.4 pp
2004 53.5

Western Asia, 2024

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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.