Poverty at the national line — all countries

Poverty at the national line — Vietnam

Poverty at the national line in Vietnam in 2022 — 4.2%. Ranked 3 in the world out of 52. Since 1992, the indicator has fallen by 53.9 pp.

2022 4.2% −0.2 pp vs 2021
World rank 3of 52
Period maximum 58.1%1992
Period minimum 4.2%2022

Trend over time

1992–2022 · % of population

Poverty at the national line — Vietnam, 1992–20220204060199219951998200120042007201020132016201920221992: 58.1%1997: 37.4%2002: 28.9%2004: 19.5%2006: 16%2008: 14.5%2010: 20.7%2012: 17.2%2014: 13.5%2016: 9.2%2017: 7.9%2018: 6.8%2019: 5.7%2020: 4.8%2021: 4.4%2022: 4.2%
Change over the period: −53.9 pp Annual average: -1.8 pp
Poverty at the national line — Vietnam, by year Vietnam All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 4.2 −0.2 pp
2021 4.4 −0.4 pp
2020 4.8 −0.9 pp
2019 5.7 −1.1 pp
2018 6.8 −1.1 pp
2017 7.9 −1.3 pp
2016 9.2
2014 13.5
2012 17.2
2010 20.7
2008 14.5
2006 16
2004 19.5
2002 28.9
1997 37.4
1992 58.1

South-Eastern Asia, 2022

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

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.