Poverty at the national line in Palau in 2006 — 24.9%. Ranked 30 in the world out of 40.
2006–2006 · % of population
| Year | % | Change, pp |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 24.9 | — |
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.
