Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Marshall Islands

Poverty at $6.85 a day in the Marshall Islands in 2019 — 36.5%. Ranked 60 in the world out of 78.

2019 36.5%
World rank 60of 78
Period maximum 36.5%2019
Period minimum 36.5%2019

Trend over time

2019–2019 · % of population

Change over the period: +0 pp

Comparison, 2019

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

Marshall Islands 36.5%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Marshall Islands, by year Marshall Islands All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2019 36.5

Micronesia, 2019

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

MH Marshall Islands 36.5 KI Kiribati 74.9

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.