Lao PDR Poverty Rate

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Lao PDR poverty rate for 2018 was 75.30%, a 7.2% decline from 2012.

Lao PDR poverty rate for 2012 was 82.50%, a 7.7% decline from 2007.
Lao PDR poverty rate for 2007 was 90.20%, a 3.4% decline from 2002.
Lao PDR poverty rate for 2002 was 93.60%, a 2% decline from 1997.

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.