Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day in Rwanda
Rwanda: Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day was 99.1% in 2023. ▬ Flat
Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day in Rwanda, 2000–2023
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in %.
Analysis
In 2023, poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Rwanda stood at 99.1%. That is the lowest value across all 6 years on record.
That represents a change of down 0.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Rwanda peaked at 99.7% in 2000 and was at its lowest, 99.1%, in 2023.
Rwanda ranks 28th of 120 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 99.5% | 99.3% | 99.7% | 2 |
| 2010s | 99.4% | 99.4% | 99.5% | 3 |
| 2020s | 99.1% | 99.1% | 99.1% | 1 |
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More poverty & inequality data for Rwanda
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank 2 surveys (2025)
- Fertility rate vs. share living in extreme poverty 3.7 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 1,784 kg per hectare (2024)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 14.0% (2023)
- Gender Inequality Index 0.394 (2023)
- Share of government consumption in GDP vs. share of population living in extreme poverty 14.2% (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in women 0.1462 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient by sex 0.1462 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in men 0.1683 (2023)
- Income inequality: Atkinson index 0.4433 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Rwanda?
- Poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Rwanda was 99.1% in 2023, 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 Rwanda?
- The highest recorded value was 99.7% in 2000.
- What is the lowest poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day recorded in Rwanda?
- The lowest recorded value was 99.1% in 2023.
- How does Rwanda rank for poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day?
- Rwanda ranks 28th out of 120 countries with data for 2023.
- Is poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day rising or falling in Rwanda?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Rwanda 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.