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📉 Highest National Poverty Rates

Population below each country's national poverty line; national thresholds differ and are not directly comparable across countries.

📅 2025📏 % of population13 entries
  1. 🇭🇳Honduras60.1%
  2. 🇧🇴Bolivia44.7%
  3. 🇦🇷Argentina28.2%
  4. 🇵🇪Peru25.7%
  5. 🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan24.0%
  6. 🇪🇨Ecuador21.4%
  7. 🇩🇴Dominican Republic17.3%
  8. 🇨🇷Costa Rica17.1%
  9. 🇵🇾Paraguay16.0%
  10. 🇵🇱Poland13.5%
  11. 🇵🇭Philippines9.7%
  12. 🇮🇩Indonesia8.5%
Stems start at zero, so the length of each stem is the entry’s value.
1
🇭🇳Honduras
60.1%
2
🇧🇴Bolivia
44.7%
3
🇦🇷Argentina
28.2%
4
🇵🇪Peru
25.7%
5
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
24.0%
6
🇪🇨Ecuador
21.4%
7
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
17.3%
8
🇨🇷Costa Rica
17.1%
9
🇵🇾Paraguay
16.0%
10
🇵🇱Poland
13.5%
11
🇵🇭Philippines
9.7%
12
🇮🇩Indonesia
8.5%
13
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
5.8%

Highlights

As of 2025, Honduras ranks first with 60.1%, followed by Bolivia (44.7%) and Argentina (28.2%).

Across 13 countries and territories, values run from 60.1% (Honduras) to 5.8% (Uzbekistan), with a median of 17.3%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 8 from the Americas, 1 from Asia and 1 from Europe.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population), 2025. Unit: % of population.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 15, 2026