Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Serbia

Poverty at the national line in Serbia in 2023 — 19.7%. Ranked 17 in the world out of 40. Since 2002, the indicator has risen by 5.7 pp.

2023 19.7% −0.2 pp vs 2022
World rank 17of 40
Period maximum 26.7%2014
Period minimum 6.1%2008

Trend over time

2002–2023 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Serbia, 2002–20230102030200220052008201120142017202020232002: 14%2004: 14.6%2006: 9%2007: 6.6%2008: 6.1%2009: 6.9%2010: 9.2%2012: 24.5%2013: 25%2014: 26.7%2015: 25.9%2016: 25.7%2017: 24.3%2018: 23%2019: 22.4%2020: 21.4%2021: 20.2%2022: 19.9%2023: 19.7%
Change over the period: +5.7 pp Annual average: 0.27 pp
Poverty at the national line — Serbia, by year Serbia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2023 19.7 −0.2 pp
2022 19.9 −0.3 pp
2021 20.2 −1.2 pp
2020 21.4 −1 pp
2019 22.4 −0.6 pp
2018 23 −1.3 pp
2017 24.3 −1.4 pp
2016 25.7 −0.2 pp
2015 25.9 −0.8 pp
2014 26.7 +1.7 pp
2013 25 +0.5 pp
2012 24.5
2010 9.2 +2.3 pp
2009 6.9 +0.8 pp
2008 6.1 −0.5 pp
2007 6.6 −2.4 pp
2006 9
2004 14.6
2002 14

Southern Europe, 2023

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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.