Name: Poverty and Equity Database (Poverty and Inequality Platform)
Creator: World Bank Group
Published: 2013-07-01

The BOOST initiative is a Bank-wide collaborative effort launched in 2010 to facilitate access to budget data and promote effective use for improved decision-making processes, transparency and accountability.

BOOST - Public Expenditure Database

This collection contains datasets that may be useful for analysis, response or modelling for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Related Datasets

The Data360 initiative aims to integrate high-value data and knowledge curated in the Bank’s verticals into a user-centered data platform. 

Data 360

The Development Data Partnership platform facilitates formation of public-private partnerships for solving development challenges with technology. Specifically, the Development Data Partnership Working Group organizes opportunities for WBG staff to work with technology companies who offer pro-bono data and resources.

Development Data Partnership

This collection contains discrepancy indexes for UN COMTRADE data that aims to capture both the frequency of missed reporting and its impact on overall recorded trade value

Discrepancy Index

A collection of datasets produced through partnership between the World Bank and the European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Observation for Sustainable Development (EO4SD) initiative.

Earth Observation for Sustainable Development

Open data and analytics for a sustainable energy future.

Energy Data Info

This collection features datasets to support building policies, institutions and investments for inclusive and sustainable growth.

Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions

Project Page: https://worldbank.github.io/GEEST/README.html 

As part of the “Geospatial Assessment of Women Employment and Business Opportunities in the Energy Sector” project, open-source Gender-related spatial data was collected for 31 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) across the globe, resulting in curated and thoroughly documented geodatabases (GDBs) that are now ready to be explored! 
Fifty-nine spatial layers were identified and then researched for each country, covering the following categories: Demographics and Population | Renewable Energy | Energy Access | Education | Jobs and Finance | Digital Inclusion | Transportation | Safety | Amenities | Climate/Earth | Law/Policy/Government. 


However, not every country GDB contains all 59 data layers, as this was dependent on the availability of open-source data in each SIDS. Users are encouraged to check the accompanying metadata excel file for more information on the datasets in each GDB, the vintage, and the

Gender Spatial Data - Small Island States

A collection of datasets that contain geospatial data. These datasets have one or more resources in a geospatial data format.

Geospatial Datasets

Collection of useful datasets from IMF made available to Bank staff via <a href=http://mydatabank.worldbank.org>myDataBank</a>

IMF Dataset

A collection of datasets to help finance the global infrastructure gap.

Infrastructure Finance Datasets

Data and dataset subscriptions managed by the Library Network on agriculture, business, economics, energy, finance, health, risk, water, and more..

Library Databases

The LinkedIn-World Bank partnership offers data to help governments and researchers understand rapidly evolving labor markets with detailed and dynamic data. It allows leaders to benchmark and compare labor markets across the world; analyze skills, occupations, migration, and industries; and leverage real-time data to make policy changes.Visualizations for many of these data are available at <a href=https://linkedindata.worldbank.org/>linkedindata.worldbank.org</a>

LinkedIn Data for Development

Collection of merchandise trade data available to World Bank staff.

Merchandise Trade Data

This collection includes datasets associated with research organized under the Bank, <a href=http://prwp.worldbank.org target='_blank' title='Opens in a new window'>Policy Research Working Papers</a>.

Policy Research Working Papers

This collection contains data on disaster and climate risk assessments curated by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR).

Risk Data Library

This collection presents software tools and models developed by the World Bank to support monitoring, planning, programming and the economic evaluation of roads and highways works.

Road Software Tools

This spatial database, a product of the South Asia Region Chief Economist's (SARCE) Office, presents data collected from official sources and harmonized into different spatial levels. Data includes economic and environmental data across 12 topic areas, and includes data from four countries in South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal) for both 2001 and 2011.

SARCE Spatial Database

A collection of country Small Area Estimation (SAE) and Poverty Mapping that contains papers, shapefiles, and datasets produced through partnerships between the World Bank and country statistics offices.

Small area estimates / Poverty mapping

This collection consists of datasets compiled and created by the World Bank Data Lab in response to a request by the Syria Economic Monitor Team to explore alternative data sources to better understand changing trends in trade and economic activity, focusing on: surface cross-border transport routes, changes in observed agricultural production, observed nighttime lights, and reported conflict.

Syria Economic Monitor

A collection of relevant datasets to support operations in Ukraine.

Ukraine datasets

Catalogue lists all the data produced under the partnership contracts between the World Bank Group and the European Space Agency

World Bank (WBG) - European Space Agency (ESA) Database

A collection of datasets to help achieve universal access to reliable and fast internet services for all.

World Bank Digital Development Data

A collection of datasets to help achieve sustainable energy for all.

World Bank Energy Datasets

A collection of datasets to help achieve sustainable mobility for all.

World Bank Transport Data

From Data to a Water-Secure World for All. World Bank Water Data surrounding the three pillars of Sustain Water Resources, Deliver Services and Build Resilience.

World Bank Water Data

The World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives explores the tremendous potential of the changing data landscape to improve the lives of poor people, while also acknowledging its potential to open back doors that can harm individuals, businesses, and societies. To address this tension between the helpful and harmful potential of data, this Report calls for a new social contract that enables the use and reuse of data to create economic and social value, ensures equitable access to that value, and fosters trust that data will not be misused in harmful ways. The data used in the WDR2021 are curated as a collection here.

World Development Report 2021

The World Development Report 2022: Finance for an Equitable Recovery examines the central role of finance in the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it looks into the consequences of the crisis most likely to affect emerging economies and proposes a set of policies to mitigate the interconnected financial risks stemming from the pandemic and to steer economies toward a sustainable and equitable recovery. The data used in the WDR2022 are curated as a collection here.

World Development Report 2022

The World Settlement Footprint Collection includes country datasets describing the evolution of the built-area across the globe at a ~30m resolution.

World Settlement Footprint

Poverty gap at $3.10 a day (2011 PPP) is the mean shortfall in income or consumption from the poverty line $3.10 a day (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall), expressed as a percentage of the poverty line. This measure reflects the depth of poverty as well as its incidence. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.

Poverty gap at $3.10 a day (2011 PPP) (%)

Gini index measures the extent to which the distribution of income (or, in some cases, consumption expenditure) among individuals or households within an economy deviates from a perfectly equal distribution. A Lorenz curve plots the cumulative percentages of total income received against the cumulative number of recipients, starting with the poorest individual or household. The Gini index measures the area between the Lorenz curve and a hypothetical line of absolute equality, expressed as a percentage of the maximum area under the line. Thus a Gini index of 0 represents perfect equality, while an index of 100 implies perfect inequality.

Gini index (World Bank estimate), first comparable values

Gini index (World Bank estimate), second comparable values

Gini index (World Bank estimate), third comparable values

Multidimensional poverty, headcount ratio (% of population) is the share of people who are considered multidimensionally deprived. It is estimated on the basis of three dimensions—monetary, education, and basic infrastructure access and an overall poverty cutoff of one-third of the weighted deprivations. Household is multidimensionally poor if it is deprived in more than a third of weighted deprivations.

Multidimensional poverty, Headcount ratio (% of population)

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices.

Poverty headcount ratio at $3.20 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population), second comparable values

Poverty gap at national poverty lines is the mean shortfall from the poverty lines (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall) as a percentage of the poverty lines. This measure reflects the depth of poverty as well as its incidence.

Poverty gap at national poverty lines (%), including noncomparable values

National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty lines. National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates from household surveys.

Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population), including noncomparable values

Number of people, in millions, living on less than $3.10 a day at 2011 PPP is calculated by multiplying the poverty rate and the population. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.

Number of poor at $3.10 a day (2011 PPP) (millions)

Rural poverty gap at national poverty lines is the rural population's mean shortfall from the poverty lines (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall) as a percentage of the poverty lines. This measure reflects the depth of poverty as well as its incidence.

Rural poverty gap at national poverty lines (%)

Rural poverty gap at national poverty lines (%), including noncomparable values

Rural poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the rural population living below the national poverty lines.

Rural poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of rural population)

Rural poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of rural population), including noncomparable values

Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population), first comparable values

Number of people living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices.  Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government

Number of poor at $5.50 a day (2011 PPP) (millions)

Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population), second comparable values

Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population), third comparable values

Urban poverty gap at national poverty lines is the urban population's mean shortfall from the poverty lines (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall) as a percentage of the poverty lines. This measure reflects the depth of poverty as well as its incidence.

Urban poverty gap at national poverty lines (%)

Urban poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the urban population living below the national poverty lines.

Urban poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of urban population)

Multidimensional poverty, drinking water (% of population deprived) is percentage of population deprived of drinking water. A household is deprived if it does not have access to even a limited standard of drinking water.

Multidimensional poverty, Drinking water (% of population deprived)

Population living below 50 percent of median income or consumption is the share (in percentage terms) of a country’s population living on less than half of the median of the per capital household consumption or income distribution. The share and the median are estimated from the same national income or income distribution.

Population living below 50 percent of median income or consumption (% of population)

The growth rate in the welfare aggregate of the total population is computed as the annualized average growth rate in per capita real consumption or income of the total population in  the income distribution in a country from household surveys over a roughly 5-year period. Mean per capita real consumption or income is measured at 2011 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) using the PovcalNet (http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet). For some countries means are not reported due to grouped and/or confidential data. The annualized growth rate is computed as (Mean in final year/Mean in initial year)^(1/(Final year - Initial year)) - 1.  The reference year is the year in which the underlying household survey data was collected. In cases for which the data collection period bridged two calendar years, the first year in which data were collected is reported. The initial year refers to the nearest survey collected 5 years before the most recent survey available, only surveys collected between 3 and 7 years before the most recent survey are considered. The final year refers to the most recent survey available between 2011 and 2015.

Growth rates for Iraq are based on survey means of 2005 PPP$. The coverage and quality of the 2011 PPP price data for Iraq and most other North African and Middle Eastern countries were hindered by the exceptional period of instability they faced at the time of the 2011 exercise of the International Comparison Program. See PovcalNet for detailed explanations.

Annualized growth in per capita real survey mean consumption or income, total population (%)

Mean consumption or income per capita (2011 PPP $ per day) of the top 60% of the population in the income distribution in a country.

Survey mean consumption or income per capita, top 60% (2011 PPP $ per day)

The growth rate in the welfare aggregate of top 60% is computed as the annualized average growth rate in per capita real consumption or income of the top 60% of the income distribution in a country from household surveys over a roughly 5-year period.

Annualized growth in per capita real survey mean consumption or income, top 60% (%)

Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.

Population, total

Number of people, in millions, living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 PPP is calculated by multiplying the poverty rate and the population. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.

Number of poor at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP) (millions)

Multidimensional poverty, sanitation (% of population deprived) is percentage of population deprived of sanitation. A household is deprived if it does not have access to even a limited standard of sanitation.

Multidimensional poverty, Sanitation (% of population deprived)

Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.

Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population)

Poverty gap at $5.50 a day (2011 PPP) is the mean shortfall in income or consumption from the poverty line $5.50 a day (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall), expressed as a percentage of the poverty line. This measure reflects the depth of poverty as well as its incidence.

Poverty gap at $5.50 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population)

Urban poverty gap at national poverty lines (%), including noncomparable values

Urban poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of urban population), including noncomparable values

Median daily per capita income or consumption expenditure (2011 PPP) is computed as the median of per capita household income or consumption from household surveys. The median is the 50th percentile of per capita household income/consumption distributions, which implies that half the population are above the median and half are below it.

Median daily per capita income or consumption expenditure (2011 PPP)

The growth rate in the welfare aggregate of median (50th percentile) is computed as the annualized growth in per capita real income or consumption of the median (50th percentile) of the income distribution in a country from household surveys over a roughly 5-year period.

Annualized growth in per capita real survey median income or consumption expenditure (%)

Mean consumption or income per capita (2011 PPP $ per day) used in calculating the growth rate in the welfare aggregate of the bottom 40% of the population in the income distribution in a country.

Survey mean consumption or income per capita, bottom 40% (2011 PPP $ per day)

The growth rate in the welfare aggregate of the bottom 40% is computed as the annualized average growth rate in per capita real consumption or income of the bottom 40% of the population in  the income distribution in a country from household surveys over a roughly 5-year period. Mean per capita real consumption or income is measured at 2011 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) using the PovcalNet (http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet). For some countries means are not reported due to grouped and/or confidential data. The annualized growth rate is computed as (Mean in final year/Mean in initial year)^(1/(Final year - Initial year)) - 1.  The reference year is the year in which the underlying household survey data was collected. In cases for which the data collection period bridged two calendar years, the first year in which data were collected is reported. The initial year refers to the nearest survey collected 5 years before the most recent survey available, only surveys collected between 3 and 7 years before the most recent survey are considered. The final year refers to the most recent survey available between 2011 and 2015.

Growth rates for Iraq are based on survey means of 2005 PPP$. The coverage and quality of the 2011 PPP price data for Iraq and most other North African and Middle Eastern countries were hindered by the exceptional period of instability they faced at the time of the 2011 exercise of the International Comparison Program. See PovcalNet for detailed explanations.

Annualized growth in per capita real survey mean consumption or income, bottom 40% (%)

Mean consumption or income per capita (2011 PPP $ per day) used in calculating the growth rate in the welfare aggregate of total population.

Survey mean consumption or income per capita, total population (2011 PPP $ per day)

Mean consumption or income per capita (2011 PPP $ per day) of the top 10% of the population in the income distribution in a country.

Survey mean consumption or income per capita, top 10% (2011 PPP $ per day)

The growth rate in the welfare aggregate of top 10% is computed as the annualized average growth rate in per capita real consumption or income of the top 10% of the income distribution in a country from household surveys over a roughly 5-year period.

Annualized growth in per capita real survey mean consumption or income, top 10% (%)

Percentage share of income or consumption is the share that accrues to subgroups of population indicated by deciles or quintiles. Percentage shares by quintile may not sum to 100 because of rounding.

Income share held by second 20%

Income share held by fourth 20%

Percentage share of income or consumption is the share that accrues to subgroups of population indicated by deciles or quintiles.

Income share held by highest 10%

Income share held by lowest 10%

Poverty headcount ratio at $3.10 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.10 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.

Poverty headcount ratio at $3.10 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population)

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population)

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, age 0-14 is the percentage of population age 0-14 living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, age 0-14  (2011 PPP) (% of population age 0-14)

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, age 15-64 is the percentage of population age 15-64 living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, age 15-64 (2011 PPP) (% of population age 15-64)

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, without education is the percentage of population age 16 and over without education living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, without education (2011 PPP) (% of population age 16+ without education)

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, with secondary education is the percentage of population age 16 and over with secondary education living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, with secondary education (2011 PPP) (% of population age 16+ with secondary education)

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, age 65+ is the percentage of population age 65 and over living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, age 65+ (2011 PPP) (% of population age 65+)

Multidimensional poverty, Monetary poverty (% of population deprived) is the percentage of the population living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices. A household is deprived if income or expenditure, in 2011 purchasing power parity U.S. dollars, is less than US$1.90 per person per day. The indicator may differ from the one used for monitoring monetary poverty, if the multidimensional poverty measure comes from a different survey (or different version of the same survey).

Multidimensional poverty, Monetary poverty (% of population deprived)

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, rural is the percentage of rural population living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, rural (2011 PPP) (% of rural population)

Multidimensional poverty, educational enrollment (% of population deprived) is percentage of population deprived of school enrollment. A household is deprived if at least one child (grade 8 equivalent age or below) is not enrolled in school.

Multidimensional poverty, Educational enrollment (% of population deprived)

Income share held by third 20%

Income share held by highest 20%

Income share held by lowest 20%

Multidimensional poverty, educational attainment (% of population deprived) is percentage of population deprived of primary educational attainment. A household is deprived if no adult (grade 9 equivalent age or above) has completed primary education.

Multidimensional poverty, Educational attainment (% of population deprived)

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, with primary education is the percentage of population age 16 and over with primary education living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, with primary education (2011 PPP) (% of population age 16+ with primary education)

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, with Tertiary/post-secondary education is the percentage of population age 16 and over with Tertiary/post-secondary education living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day,  with Tertiary/post-secondary education (2011 PPP) (% of population age 16+ with Tertiary/post-secondary education)

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, female is the percentage of female population living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, Female (2011 PPP) (% of female population)

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population), first comparable values

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, male is the percentage of male population living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, Male  (2011 PPP) (% of male population)

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population), second comparable values

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population), third comparable values

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, urban is the percentage of urban population living on less than $1.90 a day at 2011 international prices.

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day, urban (2011 PPP) (% of urban population)

Multidimensional poverty, electricity (% of population deprived) is percentage of population deprived of electricity. A household is deprived if it does not have access to electricity.

Multidimensional poverty, Electricity (% of population deprived)

Poverty gap at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP) is the mean shortfall in income or consumption from the poverty line $1.90 a day (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall), expressed as a percentage of the poverty line. This measure reflects the depth of poverty as well as its incidence. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.

Poverty gap at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP) (%)

Gini index (World Bank estimate)

Poverty headcount ratio at $3.20 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.20 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.

Poverty headcount ratio at $3.20 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population)

Poverty headcount ratio at $3.20 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population), first comparable values

Poverty gap at $3.20 a day (2011 PPP) is the mean shortfall in income or consumption from the poverty line $3.20 a day (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall), expressed as a percentage of the poverty line. This measure reflects the depth of poverty as well as its incidence.

Poverty gap at $3.20 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population)

Number of people living on less than $3.20 a day at 2011 international prices.  Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. For more information and methodology, please see PovcalNet (http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/index.htm).

Number of poor at $3.20 a day (2011 PPP) (millions)

Poverty headcount ratio at $3.20 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population), third comparable values

Poverty gap at national poverty lines (%)

National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s). National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates from household surveys. For economies for which the data are from EU-SILC, the reported year is the income reference year, which is the year before the survey year.

Poverty and Equity Database (Poverty and Inequality Platform)

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