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Zambia
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 52 countries
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Historical trend

60.058.657.255.854.4201020162022Zambia · 2022: 60Zambia

Analytical takeaways

  • Zambia records 60 for Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) in 2022, ranking #2 globally out of 52 countries.
  • Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) increased from 57 in 2010 to 60 in 2022, a gain of 3.
  • 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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