Madagascar poverty rate for 2012 was 98.20%, a 0.1% increase from 2010.
Madagascar poverty rate for 2010 was 98.10%, a 0.1% increase from 2005.
Madagascar poverty rate for 2005 was 98.00%, a 2.1% increase from 2001.
Madagascar poverty rate for 2001 was 95.90%, a 1.9% decline from 1999.
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.