Benin poverty rate for 2021 was 86.50%, a 1.6% decline from 2018.
Benin poverty rate for 2018 was 88.10%, a 5.1% decline from 2015.
Benin poverty rate for 2015 was 93.20%, a 0.9% decline from 2011.
Benin poverty rate for 2011 was 94.10%, a 2.4% decline from 2003.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.