Table 5.

Impoverishment indicators using the international poverty line

	Pre-payment poverty (%) (A)	Post-payment poverty (%) (B)	Absolute difference (%) (B-A)
2005/06 (PPP = 513.9492)
Poverty headcount	51.8	57.0	5.2
Normalised mean positive poverty gap	35.2	37.0
2009/10 (PPP = 741.3262)
Poverty headcount	46.3	50.8	4.5
Normalised mean positive poverty gap	33.4	34.9
2012/13 (PPP = 1043.083)
Poverty headcount	64.0	67.2	3.2
Normalised mean positive poverty gap	39.4	40.2
2016/17 (PPP = 1161.989)	51.8	57.0	5.2
Poverty headcount	35.2	37.0
Normalised mean positive poverty gap

Source: Authors’ computation based on the UNHS 2005/06-2016/17 data