Table 1.

Percentage of the population living below $1.08 a day at 1993 PPP by region

Region	1981	1984	1987	1990	1993	1996	1999	2002	2004
East Asia and Pacific (EAP)	57.73	39.02	28.23	29.84	25.23	16.14	15.46	12.33	9.05
Of which China is	63.76	41.02	28.64	32.98	28.36	17.37	17.77	13.79	9.90
ECA	0.70	0.51	0.35	0.46	3.60	4.42	3.78	1.27	0.94
LAC	10.77	13.07	12.09	10.19	8.42	8.87	9.66	9.09	8.64
Middle East and North Africa (MNA)	5.08	3.82	3.09	2.33	1.87	1.69	2.08	1.69	1.47
South Asia (SAS)	49.57	45.43	45.11	43.04	36.87	36.06	34.92	33.56	30.84
Of which India is	51.75	47.94	46.15	44.31	41.82	39.94	37.66	36.03	34.33
SSA	42.26	46.20	47.22	46.73	45.47	47.72	45.77	42.63	41.10
Total	40.14	32.72	28.72	28.66	25.56	22.66	22.10	20.13	18.09
Total excluding China	31.35	29.69	28.75	27.14	24.58	24.45	23.54	22.19	20.70

Source: authors' calculations. The set of countries are the Part 2 member countries of the World Bank, essentially all low- and middle-income countries, which the Bank currently defines as having average gross domestic product per capita for the period 2004–2006 of no more than $11,115; see ref. 10.