COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Peru Poverty Headcount
Peru poverty headcount: latest available value for 2024, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
SI.POV.NAHC| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27,60 | -1,40 |
| 2023 | 29,00 | 1,50 |
| 2022 | 27,50 | 1,60 |
| 2021 | 25,90 | -4,20 |
| 2020 | 30,10 | 9,90 |
| 2019 | 20,20 | -0,30 |
| 2018 | 20,50 | -1,20 |
| 2017 | 21,70 | 1,00 |
| 2016 | 20,70 | — |
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 seriesPeru recorded 27,60 percent in 2024, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2023, the poverty headcount decreased by 1,40.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an upward direction.
Across 9 observations from 2016 to 2024, the average was 24,80; the minimum was 20,20 in 2019 and the maximum was 30,10 in 2020.
Peru ranks 93 out of 139 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for Latin America & Caribbean.
It is also above the available average for the Upper middle income group.
Extent of poverty under national definitions.