Arab kingdom least in the poverty rate Recorded # Chad # Haiti and # Liberias highest rates of # poverty, according to the latest report published by the Agency # CIA, where the percentage of the population living below the poverty line, 80% of the total population , defined the poverty line as the minimum level of income required to provide the basic requirements of life including food , clothing , housing , and health care. Anyone who is unable to provide the minimum requirements for life falls within the definition of extreme poverty . The World Bank has raised its estimate of the standard international poverty line of U.S. $ to $ 1.25 in 2008 at the level of purchasing power in 2005 , but that this standard does not apply to all states, but varies from one country to another , according to the general level of cost of living. And in the Gulf , the percentage of poverty in the # UAE 19.5% , according to the latest data available at the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) for the year 2003 , while the ratio in the Kingdom 12.7 % in 2012. It is at least the Arab world and tenth decline in the poverty rate among the 144 countries covered by the estimates of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) . Arab and # Sudan recorded the highest poverty rate of 46.5 %, according to the latest data available for 2009, then # Yemen ( 45.2 % ) , then # Gaza Strip is 38%, then # Lebanon 28% , then 25 % # Iraq . Globally, # Taiwan recorded the lowest level of poverty at a rate of 1.5 % of the total population , followed by # Malaysia ( 3.8 % ) , then # Ireland ( 5.5 % ) , then @ Austria ( 6.2 % ) , then # Thailand # France ( 7.8 % ) , then # of Switzerland by 7.9% , then # Canada ( 9.4 % ) , followed by # Netherlands 10.5 %, and 12.7 % Kingdom . And built estimates of the proportion of poverty in the Kingdom according to the number of beneficiaries of the Social Security program to the total number of Saudis , where the total appropriated by social security agency at the Ministry of Social Affairs to beneficiaries of Social Security and Mstvidath for the month of Dhu al-Hijjah of the year 1434 AH (October 2013), about 1.19 billion riyals included 822.8 thousand cases , ie , the total number of Saudis involved in the system $ 2.52 million citizens ( 822.8 beneficiaries essential facilities and 1.69 million ) make up 12.7 % of the total Saudi population of 19.84 million for the year 2012, according to estimates by the Department of Statistics and information .
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