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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 - World Bank Group
For example, in 2018 the World Bank Group adopted a societal...
- April 2022 global poverty update from the World Bank
The April 2022 update to the newly launched Poverty and...
- September 2024 global poverty update from the World Bank: revised ...
In 2022, the global poverty headcount ratio at the...
- Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022 - World Bank Group
The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series...
- Commission on Global Poverty - World Bank Group
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.
20 wrz 2024 · In 2022, the global poverty headcount ratio at the International Poverty Line ($2.15 per person per day, 2017 PPP) has remained rounded to 9 percent, with a marginal upward revision in the total number of extreme poor from 712 to 713 million.
The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the landscape of poverty in the aftermath of an extraordinary series of shocks to the global economy.
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.
3 maj 2022 · What is the new poverty line, and based on this new measure, how many people are living in extreme poverty in the world? The new global poverty line is set at $2.15 using 2017 prices.
