COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Haiti Poverty Headcount
Haiti poverty headcount: latest available value for 2012, historical series from 1987, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
SI.POV.NAHC| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 58,50 | -18,50 |
| 2001 | 77,00 | 29,00 |
| 2000 | 48,00 | -11,60 |
| 1987 | 59,60 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s). National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates from household surveys. For economies for which the data are from EU-SILC, the reported year is the income reference year, which is the year before the survey year.
Source organization: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are compiled from official government sources or are computed by World Bank staff using national (i.e. country–specific) poverty lines., World Bank (WB), note: Data are compiled from official government sources or are computed by World Bank staff using national (i.e. country–specific) poverty lines.
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Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesHaiti recorded 58,50 percent in 2012, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2001, the poverty headcount decreased by 18,50.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an downward direction.
Across 4 observations from 1987 to 2012, the average was 60,78; the minimum was 48,00 in 2000 and the maximum was 77,00 in 2001.
Haiti ranks 153 out of 160 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is above the available average for Latin America & Caribbean.
It is also above the available average for the Lower middle income group.
Extent of poverty under national definitions.