definition of national poverty line
A measure of relative poverty defines poverty as being below some relative poverty threshold. For example, the statement that those individuals who are employed and whose household equivalised disposable income is below 60% of national median equivalised income are poor uses a relative measure to define poverty.n Oct 2015 World Bank updated international poverty line to US $1.90 a day. In 2008, the World Bank came out with a figure (revised largely due to inflation) of $1.25 at 2005 purchasing-power parity (PPP). The common international poverty line has in the past been roughly $1 a day.