Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Mauritius

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Mauritius in 2017 — 19.1%. Ranked 48 in the world out of 78. Since 2006, the indicator has fallen by 11.7 pp.

2017 19.1% −7.1 pp vs 2012
World rank 48of 78
Period maximum 30.8%2006
Period minimum 19.1%2017

Trend over time

2006–2017 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Mauritius, 2006–2017152025303520062008201020122014201620172006: 30.8%2012: 26.2%2017: 19.1%
Change over the period: −11.7 pp Annual average: -1.06 pp

Comparison, 2017

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

Mauritius 19.1%
World 51.5%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Mauritius, by year Mauritius All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2017 19.1
2012 26.2
2006 30.8

Eastern Africa, 2017

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.