Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Japan

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Japan in 2020 — 3.3%. Ranked 32 in the world out of 70. Since 2008, the indicator has fallen by 0.4 pp.

2020 3.3% −0.4 pp vs 2019
World rank 32of 70
Period maximum 3.7%2008
Period minimum 1.7%2014

Trend over time

2008–2020 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Japan, 2008–20201.522.533.5420082010201220142016201820202008: 3.7%2009: 3.2%2010: 2%2011: 2.6%2012: 2.4%2013: 3.7%2014: 1.7%2015: 1.9%2016: 2.8%2017: 1.9%2018: 3.3%2019: 3.7%2020: 3.3%
Change over the period: −0.4 pp Annual average: -0.03 pp

Comparison, 2020

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

Japan 3.3%
World 50.4%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Japan, by year Japan All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2020 3.3 −0.4 pp
2019 3.7 +0.4 pp
2018 3.3 +1.4 pp
2017 1.9 −0.9 pp
2016 2.8 +0.9 pp
2015 1.9 +0.2 pp
2014 1.7 −2 pp
2013 3.7 +1.3 pp
2012 2.4 −0.2 pp
2011 2.6 +0.6 pp
2010 2 −1.2 pp
2009 3.2 −0.5 pp
2008 3.7

Eastern Asia, 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.