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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.
- Commission on Global Poverty
For example, in 2018 the World Bank Group adopted a societal...
- Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2020
The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series...
- Commission on Global Poverty
26 paź 2022 · 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.
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 September 2022 global poverty update from the World Bank presents new global poverty estimates for the reference year 2019. It revises the previously published global estimates for the period between 1981 to 2018, as well as the regional estimates from 1981 to 2019.
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.
The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provide the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition takes the first comprehensive look at the landscape of poverty in the aftermath of an extraordinary series of shocks to the global economy.
The April 2022 update to the newly launched Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) involves several changes to the data underlying the global poverty estimates. Some welfare aggregates have been changed for improved harmonization, and the CPI, national accounts, and population input data have been updated.
