Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Estonia

Poverty at the national line in Estonia in 2022 — 22.5%. Ranked 31 in the world out of 52. Since 2003, the indicator has risen by 2.3 pp.

2022 22.5% −0.3 pp vs 2021
World rank 31of 52
Period maximum 22.8%2021
Period minimum 15.8%2009

Trend over time

2003–2022 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Estonia, 2003–2022141618202224200320052007200920112013201520172019202120222003: 20.2%2004: 18.3%2005: 18.3%2006: 19.4%2007: 19.5%2008: 19.7%2009: 15.8%2010: 17.5%2011: 17.5%2012: 18.6%2013: 21.8%2014: 21.6%2015: 21.7%2016: 21%2017: 21.9%2018: 21.7%2019: 20.7%2020: 20.6%2021: 22.8%2022: 22.5%
Change over the period: +2.3 pp Annual average: 0.12 pp
Poverty at the national line — Estonia, by year Estonia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 22.5 −0.3 pp
2021 22.8 +2.2 pp
2020 20.6 −0.1 pp
2019 20.7 −1 pp
2018 21.7 −0.2 pp
2017 21.9 +0.9 pp
2016 21 −0.7 pp
2015 21.7 +0.1 pp
2014 21.6 −0.2 pp
2013 21.8 +3.2 pp
2012 18.6 +1.1 pp
2011 17.5 +0 pp
2010 17.5 +1.7 pp
2009 15.8 −3.9 pp
2008 19.7 +0.2 pp
2007 19.5 +0.1 pp
2006 19.4 +1.1 pp
2005 18.3 +0 pp
2004 18.3 −1.9 pp
2003 20.2

Northern Europe, 2022

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.