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Gambia, The
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#2out of 56 countries
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Historical trend

53.452.150.849.448.1201020152020Gambia, The · 2020: 53Gambia, The

Analytical takeaways

  • Gambia, The records 53 for Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) in 2020, ranking #2 globally out of 56 countries.
  • Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) increased from 48 in 2010 to 53 in 2020, a gain of 5.
  • 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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