Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Seychelles

Poverty at the national line in the Seychelles in 2018 — 25.3%. Ranked 47 in the world out of 68. Since 2013, the indicator has fallen by 14 pp.

2018 25.3% −14 pp vs 2013
World rank 47of 68
Period maximum 39.3%2013
Period minimum 25.3%2018

Trend over time

2013–2018 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Seychelles, 2013–2018253035402013201420152016201720182013: 39.3%2018: 25.3%
Change over the period: −14 pp Annual average: -2.8 pp
Poverty at the national line — Seychelles, by year Seychelles All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2018 25.3
2013 39.3

Eastern Africa, 2018

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

SC Seychelles 25.3 TZ Tanzania 26.4

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.