Tajikistan: Poverty at 1.90 USD per day

For that indicator, we provide data for Tajikistan from 1999 to 2015. The average value for Tajikistan during that period was 24.3 percent with a minimum of 6.1 percent in 2015 and a maximum of 62 percent in 1999. The latest value from 2015 is 6.1 percent. For comparison, the world average in 2015 based on 84 countries is 5.74 percent. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.

Definition: Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $1.90 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.