COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Tunisia Poverty Headcount
Tunisia poverty headcount: latest available value for 2021, historical series from 2021, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
SI.POV.NAHC| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 16,60 | — |
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 seriesTunisia recorded 16,60 percent in 2021, the latest year available in this series.
Across 1 observations from 2021 to 2021, the average was 16,60; the minimum was 16,60 in 2021 and the maximum was 16,60 in 2021.
Tunisia ranks 49 out of 160 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan.
It is also below the available average for the Lower middle income group.
Extent of poverty under national definitions.