COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Zambia Poverty Headcount
Zambia poverty headcount: latest available value for 2022, historical series from 2022, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
SI.POV.NAHC| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 60,00 | — |
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 seriesZambia recorded 60,00 percent in 2022, the latest year available in this series.
Across 1 observations from 2022 to 2022, the average was 60,00; the minimum was 60,00 in 2022 and the maximum was 60,00 in 2022.
Zambia ranks 155 out of 160 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is above the available average for Sub-Saharan Africa.
It is also above the available average for the Lower middle income group.
Extent of poverty under national definitions.