A global dataset of poverty and inequality measures prepared by Our World in Data from the World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) database.
The CSV and XLSX files follow a format of 1 row per location and year.
A full codebook is made available, with a description for each variable in the dataset.
Read this document about World Bank's methodology and considerations taken into account to contruct the data for the Poverty and Inequality Platform.
We will continue to publish updated data on poverty as it becomes available. Most metrics are published on an annual basis.
This data has been collected, aggregated, and documented by Joe Hasell and Pablo Arriagada.
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