Cambodia's poverty rate falls to 16.6%: UNDP

According to the World Bank, the national poverty line in Cambodia is 10,951 riel or US$2.7 per person per day. - PPP

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): The poverty rate in Cambodia had declined to 16.6 per cent in 2022 from 36.7 perc ent in 2014, according to a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report on Thursday (July 13).

"The number of poor people was halved from 5.6 million to 2.8 million," the report said. "One in five Cambodians moved out of poverty in just 7.5 years."