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Since the 1990s, the World Bank has based its international poverty lines on the national poverty lines of the poorest countries of the world, resulting in the original “dollar-a-day” poverty line (Ravallion et al., 1991).
- Multidimensional Poverty Measure
The World Bank's Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM)...
- Country Profiles
Share of the population and population living in poverty at...
- Shared Prosperity
Shared prosperity (SP) measures the extent to which economic...
- How to Use
PIP also hosts further indicators used by the World Bank to...
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This API computes all poverty and inequality statistics...
- Publications
March 2024 Update to the Poverty and Inequality Platform...
- About PIP
PIP AT A GLANCE. The Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)...
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The Bank is the source for the share of the population...
- Multidimensional Poverty Measure
The World Bank updated the global poverty lines in September 2022. The decision, announced in May, follows the release in 2020 of new purchasing power parities (PPPs)—the main data used to convert different currencies into a common, comparable unit and account for price differences across countries.
To track progress towards its goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030, the UN relies on World Bank estimates of the share of the world population that fall below the International Poverty Line. In September 2022, the figure at which this poverty line is set shifted from $1.90 to $2.15.
The International Poverty Line of $2.15 per day (in 2017 international-$) is the best known absolute poverty line and is used by the World Bank and the UN to measure extreme poverty around the world. The value of relative poverty lines instead rises and falls as average incomes change within a given country.
PIP AT A GLANCE. The Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) is an interactive computational tool that offers users quick access to the World Bank’s estimates of poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity. PIP provides a comprehensive view of global, regional, and country-level trends for 170 economies around the world.
8 kwi 2022 · The April 2022 update to the newly launched Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) presents new global poverty estimates for 2018 and revises previously published estimates, as a result of newly available survey data and several changes to the underlying data.
The April 2022 update to the newly launched Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) involves several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates.