Belize poverty rate for 2018 was 19.70%, a 47% decline from 1999.
Belize poverty rate for 1999 was 66.70%, a 1.9% decline from 1998.
Belize poverty rate for 1998 was 68.60%, a 1.4% decline from 1997.
Belize poverty rate for 1997 was 70.00%, a 0.5% decline from 1996.
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.