African Countries by extreme poverty rate
(Global rank - country name - extreme poverty rate)
1 South Sudan - 80.71%
2 Burundi - 79.53%
3 Madagascar - 76.55%
4 DR Congo - 70.99%
5 Central African Republic - 70.76%
6 Somalia - 68.66%
7 Malawi - 67.55%
8 Guinea Bissau - 62.65%
9 Mozambique - 62.29%
10 Zambia - 58.52%
11. Republic of the Congo - 55.65%
12. Angola - 51.4%
13. Rwanda - 48.97%
14. Liberia - 48.17%
15. Tanzania - 47.72%
16. Togo - 45.29%
17. Benin - 43.38%
18. Mali - 42.26%
19. Chad - 41.04%
20. Sierra Leone - 40.06%
21. Zimbabwe - 39.53%
22. Niger - 39.29%
23. Nigeria - 39.2%
24. Uganda - 38.02%
25. São Tomé and Príncipe - 35.45%
26. Burkina Faso - 32.82%
27. Kenya - 31.25%
28. Lesotho - 28.5%
29. Eswatini - 27.53%
30. Senegal - 27.5%
31. Cameroon - 22.77%
32. Ivory Coast - 22.06%
33. Guinea - 21.26%
34. South Africa - 19.67%
35. Ethiopia - 19.54%
36. Comoros - 18.32%
37. Namibia - 15.95%
38. Djibouti - 14.27%
39. Sudan - 13.62%
40. Botswana - 13.09%
41. Ghana - 10.7%
42. The Gambia - 7.98%
43. Mauritania - 5.35%
44. Egypt - 4.07%
45. Gabon - 3.42%
46 Morocco - 0.6%
47. Seychelles - 0.4%
48. Algeria - 0.32%
49 Tunisia - 0.22%
50 Mauritius - 0.13%
Note : The Rankings has been organized from highest level of poverty rate to the lowest perctange rate.
Global Poverty line is income of $2.15 per day and the extreme poverty line is income of less than $1.90 a day.
Source: Statista
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