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Poverty headcount ratio at $4.20 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population): Vietnam, 1992–2022

Latest (2022)
4.2 %
Source
World Bank
Code
SI.POV.LMIC
Frequency
Yearly
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Definition

Poverty headcount ratio at $4.20 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $4.20 a day at 2021 international prices.

What the series shows

The series runs from 1992 to 2022 (13 years of data). It moved from 75.5 to 4.2 %, a change of -94.4%. The highest value was 75.5 in 1992 and the lowest 3.7 in 2020. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 7 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.

Using it in a thesis

Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.

Values by year

YearValue (%)
20224.2
20203.7
20185.2
20166.2
20148.6
20129.9
201013.7
200838.8
200643.9
200453.4
200265.0
199762.7
199275.5

Comparison with other countries

CountryLatest yearValue
Vietnam20224.2
Thailand20240.2
Indonesia202515.5
Malaysia20210.1
Philippines202316.9
Laos202422.5
Myanmar201729.1
China20220.5

How to cite (APA 7)

World Bank. (2026). Poverty headcount ratio at $4.20 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.LMIC?locations=VN

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period with the variable name si_pov_lmic, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.

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