Extreme Poverty Ratio ($1.80)

South America Ranking

percent living on less than 1.90 usd a daySource: IMF

Current Rank	Country	Value	Latest Reading	Previous Rank	Previous Value

1 ↑	Suriname	21.1	1999	11
2 ↓	Guyana	11.8	1998	1	28.9
3	Colombia	10.3	2020	3	4.9
4 ↓	Venezuela	6.7	2006	2	13.9
5 ↑	Peru	4.4	2020	6	2.2
5	Bolivia	4.4	2020	5	3.2
7 ↓	Brazil	1.7	2020	4	4.6
8 ↓	Argentina	1.6	2020	7	1.5
9 ↓	Paraguay	0.8	2020	8	0.9
10 ↓	Chile	0.7	2020	9	0.3
11 ↓	Uruguay	0.2	2020	10	0.1

Definition of Extreme Poverty Ratio ($1.80)

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $1.90 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.