No cities meet the criteria for “Poorest Cities in Myanmar”
Understand that no verifiable list of “poorest cities” in Myanmar exists that meets strict, city-level criteria. Official poverty statistics are not published as clean rankings for cities. Available datasets focus on states/regions, townships, or households rather than officially defined urban city rankings.
Recognize why the exact search returns nothing. National surveys (for example MLCS and World Bank reports) publish poverty headcount by state/region or by township sample, not by a standard list of cities. Surveys are infrequent, use different poverty lines and years, and often miss conflict-affected or displaced populations. Urban boundaries and informal settlements change fast, so a stable, comparable “city” poverty rank is not available.
Use close alternatives and near matches instead. Look for poorest states or regions (Chin and parts of Rakhine frequently record the highest poverty rates in national surveys), poorest townships (remote Chin and Rakhine townships report very high rates), urban slum studies in Yangon or Mandalay, and multidimensional poverty studies or humanitarian vulnerability maps. These sources give the same insight without an unsupported city ranking.
Explore these options next: search for poverty by state/region, poverty by township (latest MLCS/World Bank), urban poverty or slum reports for Yangon and Mandalay, and the Myanmar MPI or UN/NGO vulnerability assessments.
