Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Madagascar

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Madagascar in 2021 — 96.6%. Ranked 81 in the world out of 81. Since 1980, the indicator has risen by 3.4 pp.

2021 96.6% +2.1 pp vs 2012
World rank 81of 81
Period maximum 98.6%1997
Period minimum 89.1%2001

Trend over time

1980–2021 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Madagascar, 1980–202187.59092.59597.51001980198519901995200020052010201520201980: 93.2%1993: 98.1%1997: 98.6%1999: 98.5%2001: 89.1%2005: 93.1%2010: 94.2%2012: 94.5%2021: 96.6%
Change over the period: +3.4 pp Annual average: 0.08 pp

Comparison, 2021

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

Madagascar 96.6%
World 48.7%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Madagascar, by year Madagascar All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 96.6
2012 94.5
2010 94.2
2005 93.1
2001 89.1
1999 98.5
1997 98.6
1993 98.1
1980 93.2

Eastern Africa, 2021

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.