Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Syria

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Syria in 2022 — 89.3%. Ranked 68 in the world out of 73. Since 1996, the indicator has risen by 47.5 pp.

2022 89.3% +57.3 pp vs 2009
World rank 68of 73
Period maximum 89.3%2022
Period minimum 29.7%2003

Trend over time

1996–2022 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Syria, 1996–2022025507510019961999200220052008201120142017202020221996: 41.8%2003: 29.7%2006: 31.7%2009: 32%2022: 89.3%
Change over the period: +47.5 pp Annual average: 1.83 pp

Comparison, 2022

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

Syria 89.3%
World 48.3%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Syria, by year Syria All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 89.3
2009 32
2006 31.7
2003 29.7
1996 41.8

Western Asia, 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.