50 poorest countries in the world ranking 2025: an inside look

South Sudan: $251

Yeah, we've seen poor countries, but South Sudan is just at rock bottom. The war has consumed the entire economy, and the UN is practically at home there. To be honest, it's hard to believe that people can survive on such pennies.

🇾🇪 Yemen: $417

Bombing, hunger, cholera – and all this for four hundred bucks a year! The Saudis have destroyed everything there, and the world doesn’t care.

🇧🇮 Burundi: $490

I lived there for a month - it was simply hell. Eternal ethnic clashes, corruption is off the charts, and there is not enough land for agriculture. The IMF calls this country the poorest in the world, and I understand them.

Central African Republic: $532

A country with diamonds, gold, and uranium, but the people live as if in the Stone Age! The French drained everything and left. Every day someone is killed, and the government can't even control its own cities.

🇲🇼 Malawi: $580

🇲🇬 Madagascar: $595

Where in the cartoon cheerful animals dance, in reality people are dying of hunger. Climate disasters are finishing off the last crumbs of the economy.

🇸🇩 Sudan: $625

🇲🇿 Mozambique: $663

I was at the port of Beira - the infrastructure is crumbling before my eyes, electricity is a luxury, and the water is dirty. And yet they are rich in natural resources, but what good is that?

🇨🇩 DRC: $743

The Congo could be among the richest - there are trillions of dollars worth of cobalt and copper! But Western corporations are draining everything clean, leaving locals with pennies.

🇳🇪 Niger: $751

🇸🇴 Somalia: $766

Pirates - and those in Somalia are from poverty! A country without a real government for decades, clan disputes, Islamists. It's a miracle that any economy exists at all.

🇳🇬 Nigeria: $807

An oil power with a poor population - a classic! The elites are living lavishly while the common people are struggling in slums. I was in Lagos - the contrast between the rich and the poor is just striking.

🇱🇷 Liberia: $908

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone: $916

Blood diamonds, child soldiers, civil war... And all of this for less than a thousand bucks a year! The West buys their resources for a pittance.

🇲🇱 Mali: $936

🇬🇲 Gambia: $988

🇹🇩 Chad: $991

Chad is just hell on earth. Lake Chad is drying up, and with it, the hopes of the locals. Water resources are running out, and the land is turning into a desert.

🇷🇼 Rwanda: $1,043

After the genocide, we somehow got back on our feet, but poverty is still terrible. Although I must admit - at least there is some order there for Africa.

Togo: $1,053

🇪🇹 Ethiopia: $1,066

An ancient civilization, and the people are starving! Eternal wars with neighbors, droughts, political repression - and all of this for a dollar a day.

Lesotho: $1,098

Burkina Faso: $1,107

Guinea-Bissau: $1,126

🇲🇲 Myanmar: $1,177

After the military coup, the economy finally collapsed. Before the coup, they were barely surviving, and now it's even worse.

🇹🇿 Tanzania: $1,280

🇿🇲 Zambia: $1,332

🇺🇬 Uganda: $1,338

Tajikistan: $1,432

The only non-African country on this part of the list! But what a country - after the collapse of the USSR, it has not been able to recover, everything relies on remittances from migrants in Russia.

🇳🇵 Nepal: $1,458

🇹🇱 East Timor: $1,491

🇧🇯 Benin: $1,532

Comoros: $1,702

🇸🇳 Senegal: $1,811

Cameroon: $1,865

🇬🇳 Guinea: $1,904

Laos: $2,096

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: $2,199

I remember their hyperinflation - trillions of Zimbabwean dollars for a loaf of bread! Mugabe destroyed what was once a prosperous country.

🇨🇬 Congo: $2,356

🇸🇧 Solomon Islands: $2,379

Kiribati: $2,414

🇰🇪 Kenya: $2,468

🇲🇷 Mauritania: $2,478

🇬🇭 Ghana: $2,519

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea: $2,565

🇭🇹 Haiti: $2,672

Caribbean hell - no government, no economy, only gangs. After the earthquake, they never recovered, and international "aid" settled in the pockets of officials.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh: $2,689

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan: $2,747

🇰🇭 Cambodia: $2,870

Ivory Coast: $2,872

🇮🇳 India: $2,878

And here you have the "growing giant" of the world economy! But in reality - millions of poor people in slums. I was in Mumbai - the contrast between skyscrapers and slums is simply striking.

But these are not just numbers. Behind each one are millions of people who survive on pennies while Western countries extract their resources. And no cryptocurrencies can save them as long as this global system of inequality exists.