Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Seychelles

Poverty at $6.85 a day in the Seychelles in 2018 — 8.4%. Ranked 40 in the world out of 93. Since 1999, the indicator has fallen by 9.3 pp.

2018 8.4% −3.6 pp vs 2013
World rank 40of 93
Period maximum 22.8%2006
Period minimum 8.4%2018

Trend over time

1999–2018 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Seychelles, 1999–2018510152025199920012003200520072009201120132015201720181999: 17.7%2006: 22.8%2013: 12%2018: 8.4%
Change over the period: −9.3 pp Annual average: -0.49 pp

Comparison, 2018

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

Seychelles 8.4%
World 50.4%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Seychelles, by year Seychelles All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2018 8.4
2013 12
2006 22.8
1999 17.7

Eastern Africa, 2018

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

SC Seychelles 8.4 TZ Tanzania 91.5

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.