Belize poverty rate for 1999 was 66.80%, a 1.8% decline from 1998.
Belize poverty rate for 1998 was 68.60%, a 1.5% decline from 1997.
Belize poverty rate for 1997 was 70.10%, a 0.4% decline from 1996.
Belize poverty rate for 1996 was 70.50%, a 5.1% increase from 1994.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.