Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Bosnia and Herzegovina

Poverty at the national line in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2015 — 16.9%. Ranked 22 in the world out of 56. Since 2004, the indicator has fallen by 0.8 pp.

2015 16.9% −1 pp vs 2011
World rank 22of 56
Period maximum 18.2%2007
Period minimum 16.9%2015

Trend over time

2004–2015 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2004–201516.51717.51818.520042006200820102012201420152004: 17.7%2007: 18.2%2011: 17.9%2015: 16.9%
Change over the period: −0.8 pp Annual average: -0.07 pp
Poverty at the national line — Bosnia and Herzegovina, by year Bosnia and Herzegovina All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 16.9
2011 17.9
2007 18.2
2004 17.7

Southern Europe, 2015

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.