Poverty Headcount / Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste Poverty Headcount
Timor-Leste poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 41.80%.
COUNTRY: Timor-Leste
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-07-06 05:11:11
GM ECONOMY RATING
Timor-Leste · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
B
47 / 100
Fragile stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
20.0 / 20
External stability
1.2 / 15
Financial robustness
n/a
Structural stability
10.0 / 15
Future capacity
0.8 / 10
Demographic capacity
3.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 86% of weighted inputs available.
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Timor-Leste · poverty headcount data as percent of GDP.
Latest
41.80%
Previous
50.40%
Range avg.
42.83%
Rank
4
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CountryTimor-Leste
IndicatorPoverty Headcount
41.80%2014 · Rank 4
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Timor-Leste recorded 41.80% for Poverty Headcount in 2014, the latest available observation in this dataset.
The value decreased from 50.40% in 2007; the absolute change was 8.60 percentage points.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 3 available observations (42.83%).
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