Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Barbados

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Barbados in 2016 — 15.8%. Ranked 42 in the world out of 83.

2016 15.8%
World rank 42of 83
Period maximum 15.8%2016
Period minimum 15.8%2016

Trend over time

2016–2016 · % of population

Change over the period: +0 pp

Comparison, 2016

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Barbados

Barbados 15.8%
World 52.4%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Barbados, by year Barbados All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2016 15.8

Caribbean, 2016

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

About the indicator

The share of the population whose consumption falls below $6.85 a day at 2017 purchasing power parity — the highest of the three international lines of the World Bank. It is this line that shows how much more modest the fall in world poverty looks than the extreme line suggests: nearly half the population of the planet lives below this level, and over recent decades that share has been falling more slowly than the share of the destitute.

Important: It matches the typical national poverty lines of upper-middle-income countries. For rich countries even this line is low — there poverty is measured relative to median income rather than by an absolute amount.

Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank), license CC BY 4.0.