Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day in Honduras
Honduras: Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day was 93.8% in 2024. ▼ Falling
Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day in Honduras, 1989–2024
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in %.
Analysis
Honduras recorded 93.8% for poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in 2024.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 0.7% on the previous year and down 0.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Honduras peaked at 98.4% in 1990 and was at its lowest, 92.1%, in 2007.
Honduras ranks 47th of 120 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 32 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 98.2% | 98.2% | 98.2% | 1 |
| 1990s | 96.9% | 95.3% | 98.4% | 10 |
| 2000s | 93.5% | 92.1% | 95.1% | 9 |
| 2010s | 93.5% | 92.2% | 94.2% | 10 |
| 2020s | 94.1% | 93.8% | 94.5% | 2 |
Countries ranked near Honduras
More poverty & inequality data for Honduras
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank 6 surveys (2025)
- Fertility rate vs. share living in extreme poverty 2.5 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 1,887 kg per hectare (2023)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 21.6% (2022)
- Gender Inequality Index 0.437 (2023)
- Share of government consumption in GDP vs. share of population living in extreme poverty 17.5% (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in women 0.1103 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient by sex 0.1103 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in men 0.1268 (2023)
- Income inequality: Atkinson index 0.3557 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Honduras?
- Poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Honduras was 93.8% in 2024, according to World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day recorded in Honduras?
- The highest recorded value was 98.4% in 1990.
- What is the lowest poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day recorded in Honduras?
- The lowest recorded value was 92.1% in 2007.
- How does Honduras rank for poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day?
- Honduras ranks 47th out of 120 countries with data for 2024.
- Is poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day rising or falling in Honduras?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Honduras data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day. 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.