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Compare the percentage of population living in poverty by country, using different thresholds based on income and purchasing power parity. Learn about the methodology, sources and updates of the data from the World Bank and Our World in Data.
Poverty rates for Australia, Canada, Israel, and the United States were computed from OECD data for 2022 or the latest available year. All other countries' rates courtesy of World Bank.
- Where Is This Data Sourced from?
- About The Comparability of Household Surveys
- Income vs Expenditure Surveys
- Other Comparability Issues
- Global and Regional Poverty Estimates
- Absolute vs Relative Poverty Lines
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This data explorer is collated and adapted from the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform(PIP). The World Bank’s PIP data is a large collection of household surveys where steps have been taken by the World Bank to harmonize definitions and methods across countries and over time.
There is no global survey of incomes. To understand how incomes across the world compare, researchers need to rely on available national surveys. Such surveys are partly designed with cross-country comparability in mind, but because the surveys reflect the circumstances and priorities of individual countries at the time of the survey, there are som...
One important issue is that the survey data included within the PIPdatabase tends to measure people’s income in high-income countries, and people’s consumption expenditure in poorer countries. The two concepts are closely related: the income of a household equals their consumption plus any saving, or minus any borrowing or spending out of savings. ...
There are a number of other ways in which comparability across surveys can be limited. The PIP Methodology Handbookprovides a good summary of the comparability and data quality issues affecting this data and how it tries to address them. In collating this survey data the World Bank takes a range of steps to harmonize it where possible, but comparab...
Along with data for individual countries, the World Bank also provides global and regional poverty estimates which aggregate over the available country data. Surveys are not conducted annually in every country however – coverage is generally poorer the further back in time you look, and remains particularly patchy within Sub-Saharan Africa. You can...
This dataset provides poverty estimates for a range of absolute and relative poverty lines. An absolute poverty line represents a fixed standard of living; a threshold that is held constant across time. Within the World Bank’s poverty data, absolute poverty lines also aim to represent a standard of living that is fixed across countries (by converti...
Explore data and visualizations on poverty around the world, including the International Poverty Line of $2.15 per day. Learn how poverty has changed over time, how it is measured, and what can be done to reduce it.
The Poverty and Inequality Platform website allows you to explore data and indicators based on different poverty lines.
Jul 11, 2023 · This report compiles data from 110 developing countries covering 6.1 billion people, accounting for 92 percent of the population in developing countries. It shows the prevalence, intensity and dimensions of multidimensional poverty, and highlights examples of success and challenges in ending poverty in all its forms.
Oct 26, 2022 · The World Bank has revised its methods to measure incomes and poverty around the world, shifting the International Poverty Line from $1.90 to $2.15 a day. Learn how this affects the global and national estimates of extreme poverty and the differences across countries and income groups.
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Mar 26, 2024 · The World Bank reports the first estimates of global poverty until 2022 from survey data, showing the impact of COVID-19 and the recovery. Extreme poverty increased in 2020 and was still above pre-pandemic levels in 2022, while poverty declined at higher lines.
