Timor-Leste Poverty Rate

Timor-Leste poverty rate for 2014 was 96.00%, a 2.5% decline from 2007.
  • Timor-Leste poverty rate for 2007 was 98.50%, a 3.4% increase from 2001.
  • Timor-Leste poverty rate for 2001 was 95.10%, a 95.1% increase from .
  • Timor-Leste poverty rate for was 0.00%, a 0% increase from .
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. The full historical dataset is available for download here: Timor-Leste Poverty Rate | Historical Data | 2001 - 2014.