Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Suriname

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Suriname in 2022 — 20.9%. Ranked 43 in the world out of 73. Since 1999, the indicator has fallen by 26 pp.

2022 20.9% −26 pp vs 1999
World rank 43of 73
Period maximum 46.9%1999
Period minimum 20.9%2022

Trend over time

1999–2022 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Suriname, 1999–2022203040501999200220052008201120142017202020221999: 46.9%2022: 20.9%
Change over the period: −26 pp Annual average: -1.13 pp

Comparison, 2022

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

Suriname 20.9%
World 48.3%
South America computed 25.92%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Suriname, by year Suriname All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 20.9
1999 46.9

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.