Uruguay · Living on $10+ a Day · % of people

## What this measures

The share of people living on $10 a day or more in Uruguay, per person, at 2021 purchasing-power prices, from household surveys.

## Why it matters

The $10-a-day line is the World Bank and academic marker of economic security and a middle-class life; the share above it tracks the rise of a consuming middle class.

## How to read it

Higher means more of the population lives above the line. Compare a country with its own past; survey methods differ between countries.

## What it does not say

Household surveys under-count the richest and are years apart in many countries; the years between surveys are World Bank estimates, and no year after the latest survey is stored. Some countries measure income, others consumption.

## Source

World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform (pip.worldbank.org), Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Palanor calculation from the headcounts at $10 and $50 a day (2021 PPP). Read weekly by the Country Schemas job.