Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Belarus

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Belarus in 2020 — 2.6%. Ranked 28 in the world out of 70. Since 1993, the indicator has fallen by 78.7 pp.

2020 2.6% −1.3 pp vs 2019
World rank 28of 70
Period maximum 93.4%1998
Period minimum 2.6%2020

Trend over time

1993–2020 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Belarus, 1993–2020025507510019931996199920022005200820112014201720201993: 81.3%1995: 46.5%1998: 93.4%1999: 92.2%2000: 89.4%2001: 80.5%2002: 76.1%2003: 73.3%2004: 64.5%2005: 47.2%2006: 36.7%2007: 28.2%2008: 24%2009: 22.3%2010: 18%2011: 14.6%2012: 9.2%2013: 5.8%2014: 5.4%2015: 6.8%2016: 7.4%2017: 6.2%2018: 4.3%2019: 3.9%2020: 2.6%
Change over the period: −78.7 pp Annual average: -2.91 pp

Comparison, 2020

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

Belarus 2.6%
World 50.4%
Eastern Europe computed 4.17%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Belarus, by year Belarus All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2020 2.6 −1.3 pp
2019 3.9 −0.4 pp
2018 4.3 −1.9 pp
2017 6.2 −1.2 pp
2016 7.4 +0.6 pp
2015 6.8 +1.4 pp
2014 5.4 −0.4 pp
2013 5.8 −3.4 pp
2012 9.2 −5.4 pp
2011 14.6 −3.4 pp
2010 18 −4.3 pp
2009 22.3 −1.7 pp
2008 24 −4.2 pp
2007 28.2 −8.5 pp
2006 36.7 −10.5 pp
2005 47.2 −17.3 pp
2004 64.5 −8.8 pp
2003 73.3 −2.8 pp
2002 76.1 −4.4 pp
2001 80.5 −8.9 pp
2000 89.4 −2.8 pp
1999 92.2 −1.2 pp
1998 93.4
1995 46.5
1993 81.3

Eastern Europe, 2020

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.