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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’s poverty estimates are hugely important for regional and global poverty measurement, as the coun...

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...