Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Timor-Leste

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Timor-Leste in 2014 — 96%. Ranked 83 in the world out of 84. Since 2001, the indicator has risen by 0.9 pp.

2014 96% −2.5 pp vs 2007
World rank 83of 84
Period maximum 98.5%2007
Period minimum 95.1%2001

Trend over time

2001–2014 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Timor-Leste, 2001–20149596979899200120032005200720092011201320142001: 95.1%2007: 98.5%2014: 96%
Change over the period: +0.9 pp Annual average: 0.07 pp

Comparison, 2014

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste 96%
World 54.7%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Timor-Leste, by year Timor-Leste All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2014 96
2007 98.5
2001 95.1

South-Eastern Asia, 2014

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.