Germany: Poverty ratio, percent living on less than 5.50 USD a day
, 1991 - 2016:
For that indicator, we provide data for Germany from 1991 to 2016. The average value for Germany during that period was 0.23 percent with a minimum of 0 percent in 2006 and a maximum of 0.5 percent in 1994.
The latest value from 2016 is 0.5 percent. For comparison, the world average in 2016 based on 79
countries is 18.94 percent.
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Definition: Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.
