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DEFINITION
Population below $2 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $2.15 a day at 1993 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates cannot be compared with poverty rates reported previously for individual countries. Data showing as 2.0 signifies a poverty rate of less than 2.0 percent.
| Date |
Amount |
Rank |
| 2001 |
2 |
#17 |
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| 1999 |
2 |
#19 |
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| 1998 |
2 |
#29 |
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| 1988 |
2 |
#12 |
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DEFINITION: Population below $2 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $2.15 a day at 1993 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates cannot be compared with poverty rates reported previously for individual countries. Data showing as 2.0 signifies a poverty rate of less than 2.0 percent.
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