Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Belize

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Belize in 2018 — 19.7%. Ranked 53 in the world out of 93. Since 1993, the indicator has fallen by 41.8 pp.

2018 19.7% −47 pp vs 1999
World rank 53of 93
Period maximum 70.5%1996
Period minimum 19.7%2018

Trend over time

1993–2018 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Belize, 1993–20180204060801993199619992002200520082011201420171993: 61.5%1994: 65.2%1995: 48%1996: 70.5%1997: 70%1998: 68.6%1999: 66.7%2018: 19.7%
Change over the period: −41.8 pp Annual average: -1.67 pp

Comparison, 2018

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

Belize 19.7%
World 50.4%
Central America computed 35.68%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Belize, by year Belize All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2018 19.7
1999 66.7 −1.9 pp
1998 68.6 −1.4 pp
1997 70 −0.5 pp
1996 70.5 +22.5 pp
1995 48 −17.2 pp
1994 65.2 +3.7 pp
1993 61.5

Central America, 2018

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.