Countries by poverty

A poverty index of the countries

Rank	Country	Population below poverty line (%)
1	Syria	83
2	Zimbabwe	72
3	Madagascar	71
4	Sierra Leone	70
5	Nigeria	70
6	Suriname	70
7	Guinea-Bissau	67
8	Sao Tome and Principe	66
9	Burundi	65
10	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	63
11	Swaziland	63
12	Zambia	61
13	Guatemala	59.3
14	Haiti	58.5
15	Lesotho	57
16	Togo	55.1
17	Liberia	54.1
18	Yemen	54
19	Malawi	50.7
20	South Sudan	50.6
21	Eritrea	50
22	Gambia, The	48.4
23	Guinea	47
24	Chad	46.7
25	Senegal	46.7
26	Sudan	46.5
27	Congo, Republic of the	46.5
28	Cote d'Ivoire	46.3
29	Mexico	46.2
30	Mozambique	46.1
31	Niger	45.4
32	Comoros	44.8
33	Equatorial Guinea	44
34	Kenya	43.4
35	East Timor	41.8
36	Belize	41
37	Angola	40.5
38	Burkina Faso	40.1
39	Seychelles	39.3
40	Rwanda	39.1
41	Bolivia	38.6
42	Grenada	38
43	Papua New Guinea	37
44	Benin	36.2
45	Mali	36.1
46	Greece	36
47	Afghanistan	35.8
48	Guyana	35
49	El Salvador	34.9
50	Gabon	34.3
51	Argentina	32.2
52	Kyrgyzstan	32.1
53	Armenia	32
54	Bangladesh	31.5
55	Tajikistan	31.5
56	Fiji	31
57	Mauritania	31
58	Dominican Republic	30.5
59	Botswana	30.3
60	Cameroon	30
61	Cape Verde	30
62	Gaza Strip	30
63	Kosovo	30
64	Italy	29.9
65	Honduras	29.6
66	Nicaragua	29.6
67	Ethiopia	29.6
68	Pakistan	29.5
69	Dominica	29
70	Virgin Islands	28.9
71	Namibia	28.7
72	Lebanon	28.6
73	Colombia	27.8
74	Micronesia, Federated States of	26.7
75	Tuvalu	26.3
76	Ecuador	25.6
77	Burma	25.6
78	Latvia	25.5
79	Nepal	25.2
80	Egypt	25.2
81	Ghana	24.2
82	Ukraine	24.1
83	Tonga	24
84	Guam	23
85	Djibouti	23
86	Anguilla	23
87	Algeria	23
88	Panama	23
89	Iraq	23
90	Tanzania	22.8
91	Peru	22.7
92	Romania	22.4
93	Paraguay	22.2
94	Lithuania	22.2
95	Laos	22
96	Israel	22
97	Bulgaria	22
98	India	21.9
99	Turkey	21.9
100	Costa Rica	21.7
101	Mongolia	21.6
102	Philippines	21.6
103	Macedonia	21.5
104	Estonia	21.3
105	Spain	21.1
106	Moldova	20.8
107	Trinidad and Tobago	20
108	Uganda	19.7
109	Venezuela	19.7
110	French Polynesia	19.7
111	Hong Kong	19.6
112	Croatia	19.5
113	United Arab Emirates	19.5
114	Portugal	19
115	Iran	18.7
116	West Bank	18
117	Cambodia	17.7
118	Poland	17.6
119	Bosnia and Herzegovina	17.2
120	New Caledonia	17
121	Germany	16.7
122	South Africa	16.6
123	Jamaica	16.5
124	Malta	16.3
125	Greenland	16.2
126	Japan	16.1
127	Maldives	16
128	Tunisia	15.5
129	United States	15.1
130	Belgium	15.1
131	Morocco	15
132	Sweden	15
133	United Kingdom	15
134	Hungary	14.9
135	Chile	14.4
136	Albania	14.3
137	Slovenia	14.3
138	Jordan	14.2
139	France	14
140	Uzbekistan	14
141	Denmark	13.4
142	Bhutan	13.3
143	Russia	13.3
144	Korea, South	12.5
145	Slovakia	12.3
146	Vietnam	11.3
147	Bermuda	11
148	Indonesia	10.9
149	Czech Republic	9.7
150	Uruguay	9.7
151	Canada	9.4
152	Bahamas, The	9.3
153	Georgia	9.2
154	Serbia	8.9
155	Netherlands	8.8
156	Montenegro	8.6
157	Ireland	8.2
158	Mauritius	8
159	Thailand	7.2
160	Sri Lanka	6.7
161	Switzerland	6.6
162	Belarus	5.7
163	Azerbaijan	4.9
164	Faroe Islands	4.2
165	Austria	4
166	Malaysia	3.8
167	Brazil	3.7
168	China	3.3
169	Kazakhstan	2.7
170	Taiwan	1.5
171	Turkmenistan	0.2