Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Switzerland

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Switzerland in 2022 — 0.3%. Ranked 5 in the world out of 73. Since 1982, the indicator has fallen by 0.6 pp.

2022 0.3% +0.1 pp vs 2021
World rank 5of 73
Period maximum 1.3%1992
Period minimum 0%2012

Trend over time

1982–2022 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Switzerland, 1982–202200.511.5198219861990199419982002200620102014201820221982: 0.9%1992: 1.3%2000: 0.4%2002: 0.2%2004: 0.6%2006: 0.5%2007: 0.5%2008: 0.5%2009: 0.3%2010: 0.5%2011: 0.1%2012: 0%2013: 0.1%2014: 0.1%2015: 0.1%2016: 0.2%2017: 0.1%2018: 0.2%2019: 0.2%2020: 0.1%2021: 0.2%2022: 0.3%
Change over the period: −0.6 pp Annual average: -0.02 pp

Comparison, 2022

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

Switzerland 0.3%
World 48.3%
Western Europe computed 0.97%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Switzerland, by year Switzerland All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 0.3 +0.1 pp
2021 0.2 +0.1 pp
2020 0.1 −0.1 pp
2019 0.2 +0 pp
2018 0.2 +0.1 pp
2017 0.1 −0.1 pp
2016 0.2 +0.1 pp
2015 0.1 +0 pp
2014 0.1 +0 pp
2013 0.1 +0.1 pp
2012 0 −0.1 pp
2011 0.1 −0.4 pp
2010 0.5 +0.2 pp
2009 0.3 −0.2 pp
2008 0.5 +0 pp
2007 0.5 +0 pp
2006 0.5
2004 0.6
2002 0.2
2000 0.4
1992 1.3
1982 0.9

Western Europe, 2022

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.