Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Kosovo

Poverty at the national line in Kosovo in 2015 — 17.6%. Ranked 24 in the world out of 56. Since 2012, the indicator has fallen by 5.3 pp.

2015 17.6% −3.5 pp vs 2014
World rank 24of 56
Period maximum 22.9%2012
Period minimum 17.6%2013

Trend over time

2012–2015 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Kosovo, 2012–2015161820222420122013201420152012: 22.9%2013: 17.6%2014: 21.1%2015: 17.6%
Change over the period: −5.3 pp Annual average: -1.77 pp
Poverty at the national line — Kosovo, by year Kosovo All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 17.6 −3.5 pp
2014 21.1 +3.5 pp
2013 17.6 −5.3 pp
2012 22.9

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.