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[10] 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.
State/UT % of population State/UT specific poverty line (2019-21) % of population living below the Multidimensional Poverty Index in 2023 [5]. Rural Urban
Minnesota, the state where residents are financially hurting least, has the third-lowest poverty rate (9.3%) and the fourth-lowest unemployment rate (2.5%). Financial hardships are most prevalent ...
“By 2017, that figure had jumped to 43 percent.”Using a version of the Census Bureau’s supplemental poverty measure — a more comprehensive assessment that takes a wide variety of factors ...
This is a list of Nigerian states by poverty rate as of 2019. The international poverty rate used by the World Bank is used in the following list. The estimates can therefore differ from other estimates, like the national poverty rate. Nigeria is the country with the most people living in extreme poverty worldwide since 2019, overtaking much ...
For example, a low-income state like Mississippi — where the median income for an individual is the lowest in the country at $47,446 — also has the highest rate of persistent poverty at 24.4% ...
In 2019, the poverty rate overall was 10.5% and for Blacks it was 18.8%, the lowest rates for both since the Census Bureau started keeping statistics in 1959. However, African Americans are over-represented in the poverty population: they represented 13.2% of the total population in the country, but 23.8% of the poverty population. [100]