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According to World Bank, "Poverty headcount ratio at a defined value a day is the percentage of the population living on less than that value a day at 2017 purchasing power adjusted 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."
This list of U.S. states and territories by poverty rate covers the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and their populations' poverty rate. The four other inhabited U.S. territories ( American Samoa , Guam , the Northern Mariana Islands , and the U.S. Virgin Islands ) are listed separately.
The poverty rate, however, is low in some low tax countries like Switzerland. A comparison of poverty rates between states reveals that some low tax states have low poverty rates. For example, New Hampshire has the lowest poverty rate of any state in the U. S., and has very low taxes (46th among all states).
These are lists of the lowest-income counties in the United States, based on measures of per capita personal income and median household income. This article lists counties by per capita personal income (PCPI), a more comprehensive measurement of an individual's income than per capita income (PCI).
The U.S. territories have the highest poverty rates in the United States (higher than the poverty rates of the U.S. mainland), and many of the lowest-income places in the United States are found in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and American Samoa.
Despite its occasional economic hiccups, the United States remains one of the richest countries in the world. As of 2022 it ranked 7th globally in GDP per capita, according to data cited by Visual...
Low income 37.5 2020 38.62 2014 Belgium: Western Europe: High income 26.6 2021 26.70 2022 25.6 2021 Benin: Western Africa: Lower middle income 34.4 2021 37.95 2019 Burkina Faso: Western Africa: Low income 37.4 2021 43.02 2019 Bangladesh: Southern Asia: Lower middle income 33.4 2022 32.39 2016 Bulgaria: Eastern Europe: High income
The state's jobless rate is the lowest among big states, and its GDP and wages are growing rapidly. ... As a result, the state's wage growth is high, and it has one of the lowest poverty rates in ...