Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Turkmenistan

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Turkmenistan in 1998 — 84.6%. Ranked 42 in the world out of 54.

1998 84.6%
World rank 42of 54
Period maximum 84.6%1998
Period minimum 84.6%1998

Trend over time

1998–1998 · % of population

Change over the period: +0 pp

Comparison, 1998

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

Turkmenistan 84.6%
World 70.8%
Central Asia computed 94.43%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Turkmenistan, by year Turkmenistan All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
1998 84.6

Central Asia, 1998

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.