Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Austria

Poverty at the national line in Austria in 2021 — 14.8%. Ranked 21 in the world out of 73. Since 2002, the indicator has risen by 1.6 pp.

2021 14.8% +0.1 pp vs 2020
World rank 21of 73
Period maximum 15.2%2007
Period minimum 12%2006

Trend over time

2002–2021 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Austria, 2002–20211213141516200220042006200820102012201420162018202020212002: 13.2%2003: 13%2004: 12.6%2005: 12.6%2006: 12%2007: 15.2%2008: 14.5%2009: 14.7%2010: 14.5%2011: 14.4%2012: 14.4%2013: 14.1%2014: 13.9%2015: 14.1%2016: 14.4%2017: 14.3%2018: 13.3%2019: 13.9%2020: 14.7%2021: 14.8%
Change over the period: +1.6 pp Annual average: 0.08 pp
Poverty at the national line — Austria, by year Austria All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 14.8 +0.1 pp
2020 14.7 +0.8 pp
2019 13.9 +0.6 pp
2018 13.3 −1 pp
2017 14.3 −0.1 pp
2016 14.4 +0.3 pp
2015 14.1 +0.2 pp
2014 13.9 −0.2 pp
2013 14.1 −0.3 pp
2012 14.4 +0 pp
2011 14.4 −0.1 pp
2010 14.5 −0.2 pp
2009 14.7 +0.2 pp
2008 14.5 −0.7 pp
2007 15.2 +3.2 pp
2006 12 −0.6 pp
2005 12.6 +0 pp
2004 12.6 −0.4 pp
2003 13 −0.2 pp
2002 13.2

Western Europe, 2021

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.