Poverty Level 2024 Percentage Of Population. Percentage of population living in households with an income or consumption per person below $10 a day. World poverty rate for 2019 was 46.40%, a 1.1% decline from 2018.

The highest poverty rate in the country is in mississippi, where 18.8% of the population lives in poverty. Poverty headcount ratio (2017 ppp) (% of population) % of population living in households with consumption or income per person below the poverty line at 2017.