World Development Indicators 2008 : Poverty Data

This supplement to World Development Indicators 2008 provides estimates of global poverty that are the first re-evaluation of the World Bank's "$1 a day" poverty line since 1999. The international poverty line has been recalibrated at $1.25 a day, using new data on purchasing power parities (PPPs), compiled by the International Comparison Program, and an expanded set of household income and expenditure surveys. New measurements of the extent and depth of poverty are presented here for 115 developing countries, along with poverty measurements based on their national poverty lines. The new data change our view of poverty in the world. There are more poor people, extremely poor people, and the incidence of poverty reaches farther into middle-income countries. Previous rounds of the International Comparison Program underestimated average price levels in developing countries (perhaps by not fully adjusting for quality differences) and thus overestimated standards of living. By the new measurements 1.4 billion people are living in extreme poverty, more than one-quarter of the population of developing countries. But countries and regions that have reduced their poverty rates are no less successful by the new measurements. In 1990, at the beginning of the period tracked by the Millennium Development Goals, 42 percent of the people in developing countries lived on less than $1.25 a day. Over 15 years global poverty fell by an average of 1 percentage point a year. At that rate the target set by the Millennium Development Goals will be surpassed at the global level and in East Asia, where poverty rates have fallen fastest, by 2015. But large differences remain between regions, across countries in the same region, and even within countries. The data presented here allow us to see where some of those differences occur and point the way toward a world free from the most extreme poverty.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Data biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2008
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE POVERTY, ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE, AGGREGATE POVERTY, AGRICULTURAL INCOMES, AVERAGE INCOME, BASIC NEEDS, CALORIE INTAKE, CHANGES IN POVERTY, CIVIL SOCIETY, CONSUMER PRICE INDEX, CONSUMPTION DATA, CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE, CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA, COUNTRY LEVEL, CURRENT POVERTY, DATA AVAILABILITY, DATA QUALITY, DATA SETS, DEFINITIONS OF POVERTY, DEPENDENT VARIABLE, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPING REGIONS, DEVELOPING WORLD, DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, DEVELOPMENT GOALS, DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS, DEVELOPMENT REPORT, DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH, DISTRIBUTION DATA, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ERROR TERM, ESTIMATES OF POVERTY, EXCHANGE RATE, EXCHANGE RATES, EXPLANATORY VARIABLES, EXTREME POVERTY, EXTREME POVERTY LINE, EXTREMELY POOR PEOPLE, FARM PRODUCTION, FIELD SURVEYS, FINANCIAL CRISIS, FOOD BUNDLE, FOOD CONSUMPTION, FOOD ITEMS, FOOD POVERTY, FOOD POVERTY LINE, GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS, GLOBAL LEVEL, GLOBAL POVERTY, GROWTH ELASTICITY, GROWTH RATE, GROWTH RATES, HEADCOUNT POVERTY, HIGHER INEQUALITY, HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS, HOUSEHOLD SIZE, HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, INCIDENCE OF POVERTY, INCOME, INCOME DATA, INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES, INEQUALITY, INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES, INTERNATIONAL POVERTY COMPARISONS, INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE, INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINES, LOCAL POVERTY LINES, LOCAL PRICES OF GOODS, LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES, MEAN INCOME, MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY, MEASURING POVERTY, MEAT, NATIONAL % POVERTY, NATIONAL ACCOUNTS, NATIONAL POVERTY, NATIONAL POVERTY LINES, PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION, POLICY IMPLICATIONS, POLICY RESEARCH, POOR, POOR COUNTRIES, POOR PEOPLE, POVERTY ACROSS COUNTRIES, POVERTY ASSESSMENT, POVERTY ASSESSMENTS, POVERTY DATA, POVERTY ESTIMATES, POVERTY GAP, POVERTY HEADCOUNT RATE, POVERTY LEVEL, POVERTY MEASUREMENT, POVERTY MEASURES, POVERTY MONITORING, POVERTY RATE, POVERTY RATES, POVERTY REDUCTION, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY, POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPERS, POVERTY STATUS, POVERTY-GROWTH-INEQUALITY TRIANGLE, PRODUCTION PROCESS, REDUCTION IN POVERTY, REGIONAL AGGREGATES, REGIONAL AVERAGE, REGIONAL DIFFERENCES, REGIONAL POVERTY, RELATIVE IMPORTANCE, RELATIVE POVERTY LINE, RELATIVE PRICES, RICH COUNTRIES, RURAL, RURAL % URBAN % NATIONAL, RURAL AREAS, RURAL POPULATION, RURAL POVERTY, RURAL POVERTY LINE, RURAL POVERTY LINES, RURAL VILLAGES, STATISTICAL ANALYSIS, TRANSITION COUNTRIES, URBAN AREAS, URBAN POVERTY, VEGETABLES, WELFARE INDICATOR, WELFARE INDICATORS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/164111468177567650/Poverty-data-a-supplement-to-World-development-indicators-2008 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28241
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