Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Nauru

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Nauru in 2012 — 68.5%. Ranked 73 in the world out of 87.

2012 68.5%
World rank 73of 87
Period maximum 68.5%2012
Period minimum 68.5%2012

Trend over time

2012–2012 · % of population

Change over the period: +0 pp

Comparison, 2012

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

Nauru 68.5%
World 57.5%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Nauru, by year Nauru All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2012 68.5

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.