Dataset
Poverty by World Bank region and year, and the world (World Bank PIP)
worldbank.pip.regions
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About
The World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform aggregated to its regions and the world (WLD) for every year since 1981: the share and number of people below a poverty line the slice chooses (3.00 a day in 2021 PPP by default), the poverty gap and mean income or consumption. Every year is an estimate from the surveys around it; recent years are nowcasts.
Cite as: World Bank (2026). Poverty and Inequality Platform (version as fetched). pip.worldbank.org.
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Tier
- OfficialVerified
- Covers
- 1981–now
- Places
- Countries and World Bank regions
- Updated
- semiannual
- Last modified
- not stated
- Units
- 2021 PPP dollars a day per person; shares from 0 to 1
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://datanalytics.worldbank.org/PIP-Methodology/
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| region_code | text | World Bank region, or WLD for the world |
| region_name | text | |
| reporting_year | integer | |
| estimate_type | text | how the year's figure was made, such as nowcast or projection |
| poverty_line | number | dollars a day per person, 2021 PPP |
| headcount | number | share of people below the poverty line, 0 to 1 |
| pop_in_poverty | number | people below the poverty line |
| poverty_gap | number | 0 to 1 |
| poverty_severity | number | 0 to 1 |
| watts | number | Watts index |
| mean | number | mean income or consumption, dollars a day per person, 2021 PPP |
| spr | number | share below the societal poverty line, 0 to 1 |
| pg | number | prosperity gap |
| reporting_pop | number | population |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| region_code | |
| reporting_year |