South Africa Poverty Headcount
South Africa poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 37.90%.
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Interpretation
South Africa recorded 37.90% for Poverty Headcount in 2022, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2014, the indicator decreased by 8.80 percentage points, from 46.70% to 37.90%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 5 available observations (48.72%).
Across the five latest available observations (2005–2022), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 5 available observations, the low was 37.90% in 2022 and the high was 57.50% in 2005.