Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day … 2011 in Belize
Belize: Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day … 2011 was 95.9% in 1999. ▬ Flat
Latest (1999)
95.9%
Change on year
down 0.6%
World rank
54th
of 119 countries
All-time high
97.2%
in 1997
All-time low
95.5%
in 1993
Years of data
6
1993–1999
Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day (2011 prices) in Belize, 1993–1999
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in %.
Analysis
The most recent figure for poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day (2011 prices) in Belize is 95.9%, measured in 1999.
That represents a change of down 0.6% on the previous year and up 0.3% over ten years.
Belize ranks 54th of 119 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day … 2011 in Belize, year by year
| Year | % | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 95.5% | — |
| 1994 | 95.9% | +0.4% |
| 1996 | 96.5% | +0.6% |
| 1997 | 97.2% | +0.7% |
| 1998 | 96.4% | -0.8% |
| 1999 | 95.9% | -0.6% |
Belize compared with similar countries
- Belize's 95.9% is above the median for upper middle income countries, which is 95.3%, 1.0× the median. (35 countries reporting)
- Belize's 95.9% is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 92.0%, 1.0× the median. (19 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Belize
More poverty & inequality data for Belize
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank 1 surveys (2025)
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via 0 surveys per person (2025)
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via 0 surveys per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Fertility rate vs. share living in extreme poverty 2.01 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 3,857 kg per hectare (2023)
- Cereal yield vs extreme poverty, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2023)
- Cereal yield vs extreme poverty, annual growth rate -13.82 % change on previous year (2023)
- Tax revenues vs income inequality, gaps filled 21.74 (2023)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 21.7% (2023)
- Tax revenues vs income inequality, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day (2011 prices) in Belize?
- Poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day (2011 prices) in Belize was 95.9% in 1999, according to World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day (2011 prices) recorded in Belize?
- The highest recorded value was 97.2% in 1997.
- What is the lowest poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day (2011 prices) recorded in Belize?
- The lowest recorded value was 95.5% in 1993.
- How does Belize rank for poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day (2011 prices)?
- Belize ranks 54th out of 119 countries with data for 1999.
- Is poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day (2011 prices) rising or falling in Belize?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Belize data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day (2011 prices). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Percentage of population living in households with an income or consumption below $30 per day.