Comparison of Poverty

Comparison with other countries:

None can ignore that every country has less or large amount of people who are poor. The all poor are not same characterized, they have different nature of poor, their measurement process is also different. In this point of view, we can easily compare the poverty situation of Bangladesh with other countries in the following way.

Table: Poverty status of different countries in 1977--90

HDI rank	Country	Absolute Poverty (%)	Education (GNP in %)	Health (GNP in %)
147	Bangladesh	50 (1998)	2.2	0.9
132	Pakistan	30	3.4	4.5
152	Nepal	60	2.9	0.7
134	India	49	3.2	3.2
86	Srilanka		2.7	2.3
127	Kenya	52	6.4	2.1
57	Malaysia	32	5.5	1.6

Source: Human development report-1993