Ethiopia Poverty Headcount
Ethiopia poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 33.10%.
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Growth & Output9
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Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
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Interpretation
Ethiopia recorded 33.10% for Poverty Headcount in 2021, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2015, the indicator increased by 9.60 percentage points, from 23.50% to 33.10%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 6 available observations (35.77%).
Across the five latest available observations (1999–2021), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 6 available observations, the low was 23.50% in 2015 and the high was 45.50% in 1995.