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Switzerland
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#50out of 73 countries
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Historical trend

16.015.514.914.413.8200620142021Switzerland · 2021: 16Switzerland

Analytical takeaways

  • Switzerland records 16 for Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) in 2021, ranking #50 globally out of 73 countries.
  • Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) increased from 15 in 2006 to 16 in 2021, a gain of 1.
  • 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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