List of Southeast Asian Countries with the Highest Number of People Living Below the Poverty Line
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) reports that the proportion of Indonesia's population living below the poverty line (based on 2011 purchasing power parity/PPP) of US$1.9 per day was 2.7% in 2019. This ranks fourth in Southeast Asia.
However, this proportion decreased significantly from a decade earlier. A decrease of 10.6 percentage points was recorded, down from 13.3% of the total population in 2010.
The highest proportion of the population living below the poverty line was in Timor-Leste. Based on the latest data from 2014, the percentage reached 22%. However, this proportion decreased by 15.4 percentage points from 37.4% in 2007.
Laos followed with 10% of its population based on the latest data in 2018, down 4.5 percentage points from 14.5% in 2012. Next was the Philippines, with a proportion of its population living below the poverty line of 4.7% in 2018, down 5.8 percentage points from 10.5% in 2009.
After Indonesia, Vietnam had 1.8% of its population living below the poverty line in 2018. This proportion decreased by 2.2 percentage points from 4% in 2010.
Then, Thailand remained stagnant from 2010 to 2019 with a proportion of 0.1% of its population. Malaysia had the lowest percentage of its population living below the poverty line in Southeast Asia.
Malaysia recorded a percentage close to 0% based on the latest available data in 2015. This decreased from 0.1% of the population in 2011.
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