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Extreme Poverty in China and Indonesia
Share of the population below the World Bank’s international extreme-poverty line, purchasing-power adjusted, %
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Indonesia · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 3 years
China · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 3 years
Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. Shaded: the range about two in three outcomes land in. A projection, not a promise.
World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (CC BY 4.0). The line is three dollars a day per person at 2021 purchasing-power-parity prices. Based on household surveys, so years without a survey are missing; China’s early estimates are three years apart..
How many people in China and Indonesia live below the World Bank’s extreme-poverty line. In the early 1980s that was most people in both countries. China’s rate reached zero at this line in 2019; Indonesia’s has fallen a long way and is still above zero.
What this chart reads
- Indonesia · Extreme Poverty ($3.00 a day) · % of populationas “Indonesia”latest 2025-12-31
- China · Extreme Poverty ($3.00 a day) · % of populationas “China”behindlatest 2022-12-31
Sources
Indonesia · Extreme Poverty ($3.00 a day) · % of population. Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform, via World Development Indicators, indicator SI.POV.DDAY. Licence per the World Bank's indicator metadata: CC BY 4.0. Palanor rewrites the full history each week, so revisions carry through.
China · Extreme Poverty ($3.00 a day) · % of population. Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform, via World Development Indicators, indicator SI.POV.DDAY. Licence per the World Bank's indicator metadata: CC BY 4.0. Palanor rewrites the full history each week, so revisions carry through.
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