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. The full historical dataset is available for download here: Belize Poverty Rate | Historical Data | 1993 - 2018.