Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Ukraine

Poverty at the national line in Ukraine in 2020 — 23.2%. Ranked 40 in the world out of 56. Since 2015, the indicator has fallen by 28.7 pp.

2020 23.2% +0.1 pp vs 2019
World rank 40of 56
Period maximum 51.9%2015
Period minimum 23.1%2019

Trend over time

2015–2020 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Ukraine, 2015–202020304050602015201620172018201920202015: 51.9%2016: 51.1%2017: 34.9%2018: 27.6%2019: 23.1%2020: 23.2%
Change over the period: −28.7 pp Annual average: -5.74 pp
Poverty at the national line — Ukraine, by year Ukraine All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2020 23.2 +0.1 pp
2019 23.1 −4.5 pp
2018 27.6 −7.3 pp
2017 34.9 −16.2 pp
2016 51.1 −0.8 pp
2015 51.9

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.