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Bangladesh
Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population)

National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s). National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates from household surveys. For economies for which the data are from EU-SILC, the reported year is the income reference year, which is the year before the survey year.

Global rank#33out of 52 countries
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Historical trend

18.714.09.44.70.0202220222022Bangladesh · 2022: 19Bangladesh

Analytical takeaways

  • Bangladesh records 19 for Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) in 2022, ranking #33 globally out of 52 countries.
  • The historical series is still too short to interpret the trend.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

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