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Belarus
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#24out of 24 countries
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Historical trend

46.735.925.114.33.5199620102024Belarus · 2024: 4Belarus

Analytical takeaways

  • Belarus records 4 for Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) in 2024, ranking #24 globally out of 24 countries.
  • Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) declined from 39 in 1996 to 4 in 2024, a decrease of 35.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

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