Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Euro area

Poverty at $6.85 a day in the Euro area in 2023 — 1.54%. Since 2000, the indicator has fallen by 0.56 pp.

2023 1.54% −0.09 pp vs 2022
World rank
Period maximum 2.65%2003
Period minimum 1.41%2021

Trend over time

2000–2023 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Euro area, 2000–202311.522.532000200320062009201220152018202120232000: 2.1%2003: 2.65%2004: 1.74%2005: 1.6%2006: 2.07%2007: 1.48%2008: 1.42%2009: 1.77%2010: 2.06%2011: 2.17%2012: 2.44%2013: 2.49%2014: 2.39%2015: 2.38%2016: 2.15%2017: 1.9%2018: 1.7%2019: 1.58%2020: 1.61%2021: 1.41%2022: 1.63%2023: 1.54%
Change over the period: −0.56 pp Annual average: -0.02 pp

Comparison, 2023

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

Euro area 1.54%
World 47%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Euro area, by year Euro area All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2023 1.54 −0.09 pp
2022 1.63 +0.21 pp
2021 1.41 −0.19 pp
2020 1.61 +0.03 pp
2019 1.58 −0.12 pp
2018 1.7 −0.2 pp
2017 1.9 −0.25 pp
2016 2.15 −0.24 pp
2015 2.38 −0.01 pp
2014 2.39 −0.1 pp
2013 2.49 +0.04 pp
2012 2.44 +0.27 pp
2011 2.17 +0.11 pp
2010 2.06 +0.28 pp
2009 1.77 +0.35 pp
2008 1.42 −0.05 pp
2007 1.48 −0.6 pp
2006 2.07 +0.47 pp
2005 1.6 −0.14 pp
2004 1.74 −0.91 pp
2003 2.65
2000 2.1

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.