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<li>Dominican Republic poverty rate for 2022 was <strong>20.20%</strong>, a <strong>1.6% decline</strong> from 2021.</li>
<li>Dominican Republic poverty rate for 2021 was <strong>21.80%</strong>, a <strong>0.1% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>Dominican Republic poverty rate for 2020 was <strong>21.70%</strong>, a <strong>2.9% increase</strong> from 2019.</li>
</ul>Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.
In the majority of the analyzed countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, the share of the population living in extreme poverty was expected to grow in 2022 compared to 2021. Colombia presented the most adverse situation, as extreme poverty in the country was expected to increase by 2.5 percentage points. On the flip side, it was forecasted that exreme poverty would decline in four countries: Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Panama and Bolivia.
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Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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<ul style='margin-top:20px;'>
<li>Dominican Republic poverty rate for 2022 was <strong>20.20%</strong>, a <strong>1.6% decline</strong> from 2021.</li>
<li>Dominican Republic poverty rate for 2021 was <strong>21.80%</strong>, a <strong>0.1% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>Dominican Republic poverty rate for 2020 was <strong>21.70%</strong>, a <strong>2.9% increase</strong> from 2019.</li>
</ul>Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.