Peru Poverty Rate

Peru poverty rate for 2023 was 38.30%, a 0.5% increase from 2022.
  • Peru poverty rate for 2022 was 37.80%, a 1.7% decline from 2021.
  • Peru poverty rate for 2021 was 39.50%, a 8.6% decline from 2020.
  • Peru poverty rate for 2020 was 48.10%, a 14.5% increase from 2019.
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.