From: Poverty alleviation strategies under informality: evidence for Latin America
 | US$1.90 PPP | US$3.20 PPP | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1981 | 1993 | 2002 | 2013 | 1981 | 1993 | 2002 | 2013 | |
Headcount ratio | ||||||||
 East Asia and Pacific | 80.47 | 53.69 | 29.98 | 3.68 | 93.55 | 79.58 | 57.29 | 17.64 |
 Europe and Central Asia |  | 5.84 | 6.24 | 2.16 |  | 15.72 | 15.12 | 6.81 |
 Latin America and the Caribbean | 16.3 | 14.54 | 13.06 | 4.91 | 31.05 | 28.94 | 26.72 | 11.59 |
 Middle East and North Africa |  | 6.67 | 3.23 | 2.31 |  | 28.70 | 19.65 | 13.14 |
 South Asia | 54.71 | 44.82 | 38.68 | 14.66 | 85.27 | 80.24 | 75.55 | 51.97 |
 Sub-Saharan Africa |  | 59.05 | 56.14 | 40.98 |  | 78.06 | 78.02 | 66.48 |
 World total | 42.22 | 33.99 | 25.81 | 10.70 | 57.23 | 54.50 | 47.39 | 28.28 |
Poverty gap | ||||||||
 East Asia and Pacific | 30.28 | 19.32 | 9.25 | 0.69 | 58.81 | 39.42 | 23.72 | 4.60 |
 Europe and Central Asia |  | 1.91 | 1.85 | 0.57 |  | 5.44 | 5.38 | 2.15 |
 Latin America and the Caribbean | 6.74 | 6.12 | 5.33 | 2.25 | 13.66 | 12.47 | 11.26 | 4.59 |
 Middle East and North Africa |  | 1.26 | 0.60 | 0.47 |  | 7.78 | 4.61 | 3.09 |
 South Asia | 17.45 | 11.86 | 9.44 | 2.67 | 40.07 | 33.78 | 30.03 | 15.4 |
 Sub-Saharan Africa |  | 27.51 | 25.31 | 15.96 |  | 44.72 | 42.96 | 31.86 |
 World total | 17.96 | 11.95 | 8.41 | 3.26 | 31.38 | 25.67 | 20.35 | 9.93 |
Poverty gap squared | ||||||||
 East Asia and Pacific | 21.69 | 9.14 | 3.92 | 0.23 | 40.42 | 23.2 | 12.50 | 1.72 |
 Europe and Central Asia |  | 1.02 | 0.78 | 0.24 |  | 2.76 | 2.67 | 0.97 |
 Latin America and the Caribbean | 4.03 | 3.75 | 3.27 | 1.56 | 8.19 | 7.48 | 6.63 | 2.77 |
 Middle East and North Africa |  | 0.40 | 0.19 | 0.16 |  | 2.97 | 1.63 | 1.12 |
 South Asia | 7.47 | 4.40 | 3.28 | 0.75 | 22.29 | 17.17 | 14.63 | 6.11 |
 Sub-Saharan Africa |  | 16.27 | 14.74 | 8.41 |  | 30.02 | 28.16 | 19.06 |
 World total | 9.70 | 5.81 | 3.96 | 1.57 | 20.09 | 14.80 | 11.10 | 4.88 |