Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Paraguay

Poverty at the national line in Paraguay in 2024 — 20.1%. Ranked 13 in the world out of 24. Since 2022, the indicator has fallen by 5.4 pp.

2024 20.1% −2.6 pp vs 2023
World rank 13of 24
Period maximum 25.5%2022
Period minimum 20.1%2024

Trend over time

2022–2024 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Paraguay, 2022–2024202224262022202320242022: 25.5%2023: 22.7%2024: 20.1%
Change over the period: −5.4 pp Annual average: -2.7 pp
Poverty at the national line — Paraguay, by year Paraguay All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 20.1 −2.6 pp
2023 22.7 −2.8 pp
2022 25.5

South America, 2024

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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.