Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Netherlands

Poverty at $6.85 a day in the Netherlands in 2021 — 0.3%. Ranked 5 in the world out of 81. Since 1983, the indicator has fallen by 2.8 pp.

2021 0.3% +0 pp vs 2020
World rank 5of 81
Period maximum 3.1%1983
Period minimum 0.2%2010

Trend over time

1983–2021 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Netherlands, 1983–202101234198319871991199519992003200720112015201920211983: 3.1%1987: 0.7%1990: 1.8%1993: 3.1%1999: 0.6%2004: 0.8%2005: 0.5%2006: 0.3%2007: 0.4%2008: 0.6%2009: 0.4%2010: 0.2%2011: 0.4%2012: 0.3%2013: 0.3%2014: 0.4%2015: 0.4%2016: 0.4%2017: 0.4%2018: 0.4%2019: 0.4%2020: 0.3%2021: 0.3%
Change over the period: −2.8 pp Annual average: -0.07 pp

Comparison, 2021

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

Netherlands 0.3%
World 48.7%
Western Europe computed 0.81%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Netherlands, by year Netherlands All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 0.3 +0 pp
2020 0.3 −0.1 pp
2019 0.4 +0 pp
2018 0.4 +0 pp
2017 0.4 +0 pp
2016 0.4 +0 pp
2015 0.4 +0 pp
2014 0.4 +0.1 pp
2013 0.3 +0 pp
2012 0.3 −0.1 pp
2011 0.4 +0.2 pp
2010 0.2 −0.2 pp
2009 0.4 −0.2 pp
2008 0.6 +0.2 pp
2007 0.4 +0.1 pp
2006 0.3 −0.2 pp
2005 0.5 −0.3 pp
2004 0.8
1999 0.6
1993 3.1
1990 1.8
1987 0.7
1983 3.1

Western Europe, 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.