Timor-Leste Poverty Rate

Timor-Leste poverty rate for 2014 was 96.00%, a 2.5% decline from 2007.
  • Timor-Leste poverty rate for 2007 was 98.50%, a 3.4% increase from 2001.
  • Timor-Leste poverty rate for 2001 was 95.10%, a 95.1% increase from .
  • Timor-Leste poverty rate for was 0.00%, a 0% increase from .
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.