Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Tanzania

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Tanzania in 2018 — 91.5%. Ranked 91 in the world out of 93. Since 1991, the indicator has fallen by 6.5 pp.

2018 91.5% −1.4 pp vs 2011
World rank 91of 93
Period maximum 99.4%2000
Period minimum 91.5%2018

Trend over time

1991–2018 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Tanzania, 1991–2018909294969810019911994199720002003200620092012201520181991: 98%2000: 99.4%2007: 94.7%2011: 92.9%2018: 91.5%
Change over the period: −6.5 pp Annual average: -0.24 pp

Comparison, 2018

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

Tanzania 91.5%
World 50.4%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Tanzania, by year Tanzania All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2018 91.5
2011 92.9
2007 94.7
2000 99.4
1991 98

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.