Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Namibia

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Namibia in 2015 — 61.1%. Ranked 70 in the world out of 87. Since 1993, the indicator has fallen by 21.1 pp.

2015 61.1% −15.2 pp vs 2009
World rank 70of 87
Period maximum 82.2%1993
Period minimum 61.1%2015

Trend over time

1993–2015 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Namibia, 1993–201560708090199319961999200220052008201120141993: 82.2%2003: 80.4%2009: 76.3%2015: 61.1%
Change over the period: −21.1 pp Annual average: -0.96 pp

Comparison, 2015

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

Namibia 61.1%
World 53.5%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Namibia, by year Namibia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 61.1
2009 76.3
2003 80.4
1993 82.2

Southern Africa, 2015

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

NA Namibia 61.1 BW Botswana 63.2

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.