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In September 2022, the World Bank is set to launch a series of new international poverty lines, as the data on prices that are used compare different countries are being updated. This has profound implications for poverty estimates in some countries. Nigeria’s poverty rate at the new extreme international poverty line of $2.15 in 2017 prices is about 8 percentage points lower than at the previous line of $1.90 in 2011 prices. This represents a difference of more than 15 million people. Nigeria...

As a result of the adoption of the 2017 PPPs, the global poverty lines have been revised: The international poverty line, used to define extreme global poverty, is now revised to US$2.15 from US$1.90. Poverty lines for other sets of countries have also been revised upwards.

THE latest World Bank report indicates that 6,4 million Zimbabweans are living on less than

In this week’s blog, we review PIP’s data API. API stands for Application Programming Interface, a very generic, and somewhat intimidating terminology. In practice though, a data API is just a way to access data via a URL, not so dissimilar to downloading a...

In this segment of our video-blog series we review PIP’s Statistics Online platform, so-called, SOL. Together with the launch of PIP, in April the World Bank released its first public version of SOL, a platform that allows the public to conduct their own computations...

The Poverty Calculator allows for country-specific analyses and comparisons across countries, regions and the world. Economies are easily added and dropped from the analysis.

This blog is the second of a series of blogs showcasing the different features of the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP).

The Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) is a new interactive platform recently launched by the World Bank to provide access to its poverty and inequality estimates.

Today, the World Bank is launching the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP), a simple yet comprehensive tool to access our poverty and inequality estimates.

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.