Poverty and inequality indicators for over 200 countries from 1960 to date where available. GINI index, income share held by fourth 20%, income share held by highest 10%, income share held by highest 20%, income share held by lowest 10%, income share held by lowest 20%, income share held by second 20%, income share held by third 20%, poverty gap at $1 a day (ppp) (%), poverty gap at $2 a day (ppp) (%), poverty headcount ratio at $1 a day (ppp) (% of population), poverty headcount ratio at $2 a day (ppp) (% of population), poverty headcount ratio at national poverty line (% of population), poverty headcount ratio at rural poverty line (% of rural population), poverty headcount ratio at urban poverty line (% of urban population). [keywords: international development]
Repository for subnational datasets compiled by the World Resources Institute from many sources, including The World Bank, The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), and Demographic and Health Surveys. [keywords: international development]
PovcalNet is an interactive computational tool that allows you to replicate the calculations made by the World Bank's researchers in estimating the extent of absolute poverty in the world, including the $1 a day poverty measures, as published in the background papers (1 and 2) by Chen and Ravallion and in the World Development Indicators (2007). PovcalNet also allows you to calculate the poverty measures under different assumptions and to assemble the estimates using alternative country groupings or for any set of individual countries of you're choosing. [keywords: international development]
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