Poverty at $6.85 a day — all countries

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Uganda

Poverty at $6.85 a day in Uganda in 2019 — 93.6%. Ranked 76 in the world out of 78. Since 1989, the indicator has fallen by 2.6 pp.

2019 93.6% +0.7 pp vs 2016
World rank 76of 78
Period maximum 97.6%1992
Period minimum 92.4%2012

Trend over time

1989–2019 · % of population

Poverty at $6.85 a day — Uganda, 1989–201992949698198919921995199820012004200720102013201620191989: 96.2%1992: 97.6%1996: 97.6%1999: 97.2%2002: 96.4%2005: 95.8%2009: 93.2%2012: 92.4%2016: 92.9%2019: 93.6%
Change over the period: −2.6 pp Annual average: -0.09 pp

Comparison, 2019

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

Uganda 93.6%
Poverty at $6.85 a day — Uganda, by year Uganda All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2019 93.6
2016 92.9
2012 92.4
2009 93.2
2005 95.8
2002 96.4
1999 97.2
1996 97.6
1992 97.6
1989 96.2

Eastern Africa, 2019

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.