Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Cabo Verde

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Cabo Verde in 2015 — 65%. Ranked 73 in the world out of 87. Since 2001, the indicator has fallen by 14.9 pp.

2015 65% −9.2 pp vs 2007
World rank 73of 87
Period maximum 79.9%2001
Period minimum 65%2015

Trend over time

2001–2015 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Cabo Verde, 2001–201565707580200120032005200720092011201320152001: 79.9%2007: 74.2%2015: 65%
Change over the period: −14.9 pp Annual average: -1.06 pp

Comparison, 2015

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

Cabo Verde 65%
World 53.5%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Cabo Verde, by year Cabo Verde All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 65
2007 74.2
2001 79.9

Western Africa, 2015

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.