Many Countries struggle with poverty. There are 115 of the world’s poorest countries based on Gross Domestic Product (GDP), spending less than $7500/annum, of which 28 countries have a GDP of less than $1000/annum.
There are 12 Charitable Organizations in Ireland working to here and abroad to provide financial, food, and welfare aid to as many third world countries as they can. Please see these Charities listed below along with the services they provide.
Charitable Organizations |
Location | Est. |
Services |
Habitat For Humanity/Habitat Ireland |
Dublin | 2002 |
Habitat for Humanity helps families and communities to build strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter in 70 countries around the world. |
GOAL |
Dublin | 1977 |
The entry point for GOAL into those countries in which we work has typically been in the context of an emergency. Over the last 40 years GOAL has responded to nearly every major humanitarian crisis. We have worked in more than 60 countries, with millions of theworld’s poorest and most vulnerable people |
Concern | Dublin | 1968 | Multiple support services in 25 of the world poorest countries |
Trocaire |
Dublin | 1973 |
Trócaire works with local and church partners to support communities in over 20 developing countries with a focus on food and resource rights, women’s empowerment and humanitarian response. |
Irish Red Cross |
Dublin | 1939 |
National Societies act as auxiliaries to the public authorities of their own countries in the humanitarian field and provide a range of services including disaster relief, health and social programmes, and assistance to people affected by war. Together, the National Societies have 97 million members and volunteers and 300,000 employees who assist some 233 million beneficiaries each year. |
UNICEF | Dublin | 1946 |
Multiple support services in 190 of the world poorest countries. In 2011, child deaths among under 5s stood at 18,000 a day |
Oxfam |
Dublin | 1942 |
There are 20 Oxfam groups worldwide working in over 90 of the world’s poorest countries |
Plan Ireland |
Dublin | 1937 |
Plan International is one of the largest international child-centred development organisations in the world operating in more than 70 countries. |
Action AID Ireland |
Dublin | 1972 |
ActionAid works with over 15 million people in 45 countries around the world. ActionAid Ireland is currently funding programmes across six of these countries. |
The Hope Foundation |
Dublin & Cork | 1999 |
The Hope Foundation is a registered charity working with street and slum children in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India. We work to free children and poor families from lives of pain, abuse, poverty and darkness. |
Outreach Moldova | Dublin | 2000 |
We are dedicated to providing human rights, medical care and social education for children that have been abandoned or orphaned, children with special needs and children with terminal illnesses in the Republic of Moldova |
Chernobyl Children’s Trust |
Dublin | 2006 |
Chernobyl Children’s Trust is a registered charity set up and run by Irish volunteers committed to helping impoverished children living in contaminated & disadvantaged areas of Belarus |
Many Countries struggle with poverty. Below is a table of 115 of the world’s poorest countries based on Gross Domestic Product (GDP), spending less than $7500/annum, of which 28 countries have a GDP of less than $1000/annum.
These figures are compiled by the International Monetary Fund, IMF, and published twice a year. The figures are based on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), which takes into account the relative cost of living and the inflation rates per country compared to living standards among the different nations.
No. | GDP per capita, current prices (U.S. dollars per capita) |
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
1. | South Sudan, Republic of | 1051.185 | 249.662 | 243.113 | 306.704 |
2. | Burundi | 294.496 | 298.006 | 312.463 | 306.966 |
3. | Malawi | 353.502 | 293.851 | 325.536 | 349.133 |
4. | Central African Republic | 330.563 | 359.339 | 388.655 | 454.065 |
5. | Madagascar | 402.067 | 401.396 | 448.983 | 474.784 |
6. | Congo, Dem. Rep. of the | 470.151 | 467.414 | 478.218 | 478.321 |
7. | Mozambique | 528.934 | 379.004 | 426.091 | 481.248 |
8. | Niger | 409.215 | 413.954 | 438.425 | 489.051 |
9. | Sierra Leone | 599.539 | 522.173 | 487.61 | 495.857 |
10. | Afghanistan | 594.513 | 560.601 | 569.531 | 565.426 |
11. | Liberia | 703.183 | 710.482 | 694.166 | 663.029 |
12. | Togo | 563.759 | 586.294 | 611.133 | 668.422 |
13. | Uganda | 662.164 | 670.37 | 706.502 | 717.496 |
14. | Burkina Faso | 575.621 | 606.554 | 654.869 | 734.033 |
15. | Gambia, The | 693.01 | 708.855 | 704.699 | 739.94 |
16. | Sudan | 1715.071 | 1408.8 | 1123.488 | 791.933 |
17. | Rwanda | 735.616 | 733.566 | 771.674 | 800.21 |
18. | Tajikistan | 919.073 | 795.981 | 800.802 | 807.05 |
19. | Guinea-Bissau | 643.916 | 708.398 | 793.622 | 851.536 |
20. | Guinea | 712.047 | 687.118 | 790.321 | 865.251 |
21. | Haiti | 809.672 | 753.91 | 783.789 | 874.043 |
22. | Comoros | 750.584 | 762.738 | 787.897 | 877.193 |
23. | Chad | 946.401 | 851.193 | 810.158 | 889.647 |
24. | Ethiopia | 720.617 | 802.121 | 872.84 | 890.565 |
25. | Mali | 740.32 | 766.233 | 813.3 | 891.888 |
26. | Benin | 786.172 | 791.495 | 831.1 | 923.25 |
27. | Yemen | 1612.011 | 1250.736 | 1043.055 | 925.618 |
28. | Nepal | 747.161 | 730.686 | 848.089 | 970.695 |
29. | Tanzania | 957.107 | 978.961 | 1034.225 | 1090.099 |
30. | Eritrea | 779.326 | 860.273 | 979.692 | 1111.561 |
31. | Kyrgyz Republic | 1109.428 | 1109.589 | 1207.781 | 1254.135 |
32. | Zimbabwe | 1137.067 | 1111.443 | 1185.343 | 1268.932 |
33. | Mauritania | 1303.868 | 1235.215 | 1271.332 | 1309.989 |
34. | Uzbekistan | 2143.294 | 2124.128 | 1520.097 | 1326.002 |
35. | Myanmar | 1147.341 | 1210.456 | 1278.071 | 1354.164 |
36. | Zambia | 1310.354 | 1252.698 | 1491.217 | 1450.409 |
37. | Lesotho | 1179.115 | 1216.635 | 1360.557 | 1465.548 |
38. | Cambodia | 1163.414 | 1270.484 | 1379.342 | 1485.327 |
39. | Senegal | 1186.925 | 1231.651 | 1331.276 | 1485.402 |
40. | Pakistan | 1424.954 | 1439.63 | 1545.938 | 1527.157 |
41. | Cameroon | 1338.603 | 1377.865 | 1441.379 | 1544.959 |
42. | Sub-Saharan Africa (Region) | 1672.175 | 1510.722 | 1575.237 | 1621.739 |
43. | Sub-Saharan Africa | 1671.745 | 1515.695 | 1595.049 | 1657.597 |
44. | Bangladesh | 1303.18 | 1458.851 | 1602.555 | 1736.29 |
45. | Kiribati | 1538.511 | 1617.206 | 1721.867 | 1749.735 |
46. | Ghana | 1372.174 | 1551.767 | 1662.585 | 1786.652 |
47. | Côte d’Ivoire | 1397.297 | 1494.7 | 1621.403 | 1791.372 |
48. | Kenya | 1453.296 | 1559.391 | 1695.378 | 1865.209 |
49. | Africa (Region) | 1984.673 | 1834.727 | 1812.925 | 1888.227 |
50. | South Asia | 1597.437 | 1697.853 | 1901.312 | 1946.76 |
51. | India | 1638.758 | 1749.164 | 1976.093 | 2016.152 |
52. | Nigeria | 2763.196 | 2207.861 | 1994.645 | 2050.152 |
53. | São Tomé and Príncipe | 1555.969 | 1705.692 | 1846.724 | 2068.791 |
54. | Djibouti | 1788.363 | 1902.754 | 1988.765 | 2084.856 |
55. | Nicaragua | 2073.494 | 2143.812 | 2220.676 | 2126.565 |
56. | Solomon Islands | 1971.553 | 2056.559 | 2114.677 | 2270.811 |
57. | Papua New Guinea | 2605.935 | 2341.536 | 2401.559 | 2464.73 |
58. | Timor-Leste | 2620.3 | 2079.628 | 2236.974 | 2485.877 |
59. | Vietnam | 2085.714 | 2172.012 | 2353.356 | 2552.829 |
60. | Congo, Republic of | 2067.086 | 1835.828 | 2005.336 | 2571.672 |
61. | Egypt | 3731.177 | 3686.07 | 2495.02 | 2572.382 |
62. | Lao P.D.R. | 2212.402 | 2416.855 | 2540.842 | 2690.187 |
63. | Pacific Islands | 2815.446 | 2629.217 | 2716.218 | 2810.571 |
64. | Honduras | 2598.097 | 2642.706 | 2766.271 | 2829.03 |
65. | Ukraine | 2135.182 | 2200.851 | 2656.01 | 2964.193 |
66. | Philippines | 2882.768 | 2953.208 | 2988.897 | 3099.26 |
67. | Bhutan | 2604.186 | 2675.388 | 2990.924 | 3211.326 |
68. | Moldova | 2142.908 | 2243.117 | 2694.469 | 3226.717 |
69. | Micronesia, Fed. States of | 3079.499 | 3154.38 | 3202.753 | 3277.248 |
70. | Venezuela | 7922.808 | 7687.671 | 6890.066 | 3300.357 |
71. | North Africa | 3650.474 | 3581.73 | 3086.809 | 3325.866 |
72. | Vanuatu | 2880.948 | 2904.821 | 3093.995 | 3327.748 |
73. | Morocco | 2964.961 | 2996.652 | 3136.862 | 3355.423 |
74. | Tunisia | 3827.641 | 3666.3 | 3464.717 | 3573.365 |
75. | Cabo Verde | 3042.979 | 3131.473 | 3300.989 | 3622.206 |
76. | Bolivia | 3099.454 | 3137.626 | 3412.813 | 3719.247 |
77. | Indonesia | 3369.355 | 3604.281 | 3875.769 | 3788.952 |
78. | Angola | 4354.921 | 3676.826 | 4465.734 | 3924.347 |
79. | El Salvador | 3671.32 | 3771.645 | 3894.736 | 4041.039 |
80. | Eswatini | 3594.818 | 3285.111 | 3850.545 | 4092.877 |
81. | Tuvalu | 3280.974 | 3362.05 | 3688.651 | 4096.248 |
82. | Mongolia | 3956.877 | 3702.583 | 3639.893 | 4097.756 |
83. | Marshall Islands | 3361.153 | 3624.337 | 4040.291 | 4113.477 |
84. | Armenia | 3529.026 | 3526.336 | 3857.179 | 4190.152 |
85. | Jordan | 4101.885 | 4093.707 | 4135.585 | 4227.541 |
86. | ASEAN-5 | 3731.993 | 3869.122 | 4125.457 | 4249.131 |
87. | Sri Lanka | 3835.363 | 3845.988 | 4073.309 | 4265.287 |
88. | Kosovo | 3637.434 | 3766.258 | 3944.121 | 4323.964 |
89. | Samoa | 4149.36 | 4015.214 | 4258.343 | 4402.797 |
90. | Southeast Asia | 3906.188 | 4035.76 | 4287.35 | 4440.529 |
91. | Algeria | 4153.326 | 3928.385 | 4033.902 | 4449.792 |
92. | Georgia | 3761.91 | 3884.017 | 4085.834 | 4505.764 |
93. | Guatemala | 3923.56 | 4140.717 | 4469.457 | 4582.654 |
94. | Azerbaijan | 5300.136 | 3895.669 | 4140.65 | 4586.771 |
95. | Guyana | 4168.479 | 4531.241 | 4578.204 | 4648.722 |
96. | Tonga | 4021.72 | 4249.137 | 4520.886 | 4650.282 |
97. | Belize | 4855.441 | 4842.019 | 4806.493 | 4830.014 |
98. | Iran | 4723.476 | 5026.648 | 5289.795 | 5221.974 |
99. | Albania | 3953.61 | 4132.208 | 4544.912 | 5260.901 |
100. | Jamaica | 5029.073 | 4956.267 | 5193.359 | 5393.382 |
101. | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 4584.264 | 4808.299 | 5180.778 | 5703.869 |
102. | Iraq | 4811.922 | 4505.306 | 4950.31 | 5793.467 |
103. | Caribbean | 5392.204 | 5402.89 | 5560.885 | 5823.29 |
104. | Fiji | 4995.77 | 5232.277 | 5527.537 | 5876.552 |
105. | Namibia | 5162.865 | 4864.078 | 5589.462 | 5923.495 |
106. | Paraguay | 5353.075 | 5259.938 | 5600.094 | 5933.842 |
107. | FYR Macedonia | 4860.421 | 5188.432 | 5474.423 | 5953.262 |
108. | Belarus | 5941.24 | 5022.472 | 5727.385 | 6020.043 |
109. | Ecuador | 6099.351 | 6046.302 | 6216.606 | 6301.074 |
110. | Suriname | 8507.968 | 5703.369 | 5869.515 | 6506.041 |
111. | South Africa | 5802.709 | 5316.042 | 6179.87 | 6560.041 |
112. | Colombia | 6088.678 | 5800.253 | 6379.606 | 6761.223 |
113. | Serbia | 5237.254 | 5426.201 | 5901.226 | 6814.809 |
114. | Thailand | 5830.636 | 5970.316 | 6590.638 | 7084.471 |
115. | Peru | 6150.458 | 6178.179 | 6731.851 | 7118.427 |
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