Poverty Headcount / Myanmar
Myanmar Poverty Headcount
Myanmar poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 24.80%.
COUNTRY: Myanmar
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-07-06 05:11:11
GM ECONOMY RATING
Myanmar · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
CCC
38 / 100
High vulnerability
Fiscal stability
5.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
9.0 / 20
External stability
6.0 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
8.8 / 15
Future capacity
n/a
Demographic capacity
n/a
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 71% of weighted inputs available.
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Myanmar · poverty headcount data as percent of GDP.
Latest
24.80%
Previous
32.10%
Range avg.
36.83%
Rank
22
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CountryMyanmar
IndicatorPoverty Headcount
24.80%2017 · Rank 22
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Myanmar recorded 24.80% for Poverty Headcount in 2017, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2015, the indicator decreased by 7.30 percentage points, from 32.10% to 24.80%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 4 available observations (36.83%).
Within the last 4 available observations, the low was 24.80% in 2017 and the high was 48.20% in 2005.
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