Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Czechia

Poverty at the national line in Czechia in 2021 — 10.2%. Ranked 7 in the world out of 73. Since 2004, the indicator has fallen by 0.2 pp.

2021 10.2% +1.6 pp vs 2020
World rank 7of 73
Period maximum 10.4%2004
Period minimum 8.6%2008

Trend over time

2004–2021 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Czechia, 2004–20218.599.51010.520042006200820102012201420162018202020212004: 10.4%2005: 9.9%2006: 9.6%2007: 9%2008: 8.6%2009: 9%2010: 9.8%2011: 9.6%2012: 8.6%2013: 9.7%2014: 9.7%2015: 9.7%2016: 9.1%2017: 9.6%2018: 10.1%2019: 9.5%2020: 8.6%2021: 10.2%
Change over the period: −0.2 pp Annual average: -0.01 pp
Poverty at the national line — Czechia, by year Czechia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 10.2 +1.6 pp
2020 8.6 −0.9 pp
2019 9.5 −0.6 pp
2018 10.1 +0.5 pp
2017 9.6 +0.5 pp
2016 9.1 −0.6 pp
2015 9.7 +0 pp
2014 9.7 +0 pp
2013 9.7 +1.1 pp
2012 8.6 −1 pp
2011 9.6 −0.2 pp
2010 9.8 +0.8 pp
2009 9 +0.4 pp
2008 8.6 −0.4 pp
2007 9 −0.6 pp
2006 9.6 −0.3 pp
2005 9.9 −0.5 pp
2004 10.4

Eastern 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.