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Benin
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#16out of 73 countries
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Historical trend

38.537.937.436.836.2201820202021Benin · 2021: 36Benin

Analytical takeaways

  • Benin records 36 for Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) in 2021, ranking #16 globally out of 73 countries.
  • Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) declined from 39 in 2018 to 36 in 2021, a decrease of 2.
  • The country sits in the top quartile of the global distribution for this metric, making the page useful for leader-oriented high-intent searches.

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