Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Liberia

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Liberia in 2016 — 88.3%. Ranked 79 in the world out of 83. Since 2007, the indicator has fallen by 7.9 pp.

2016 88.3% −1.3 pp vs 2014
World rank 79of 83
Period maximum 96.2%2007
Period minimum 88.3%2016

Trend over time

2007–2016 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Liberia, 2007–201688909294969820072008200920102011201220132014201520162007: 96.2%2014: 89.6%2016: 88.3%
Change over the period: −7.9 pp Annual average: -0.88 pp

Comparison, 2016

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

Liberia 88.3%
World 52.4%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Liberia, by year Liberia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2016 88.3
2014 89.6
2007 96.2

Western Africa, 2016

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

GH Ghana 85.4 LR Liberia 88.3

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.