World Bank poverty and inequality measures for Mauritius, generated from analytical reports, national monitoring programs, and the Bank's Development Research Group. The data includes internationally comparable poverty estimates and lines produced since 1990. It is provided by the World Bank Group and was last updated on 2026-04-28.
Use Cases
- Assessing the extent and causes of poverty based on reported poverty measures.
- Examining the impact of growth and public policy based on inequality indicators.
- Reviewing household survey data and measurement methods described in the source.
- Tracking poverty trends over time using internationally comparable estimates.
Strengths
- Data originates from the World Bank, a major international financial institution.
- Includes poverty estimates produced since 1990, suggesting a long-term perspective.
- License is CC-BY-4.0, which is a permissive open data license.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last updated 2026-04-28 09:51:36.679459; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Group
- Collection Method
- Analytical work conducted in collaboration with national institutions, development agencies, and civil society, using household survey data.
- Time Range
- Estimates produced since 1990; specific temporal coverage of the dataset is unknown.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 09:51:36.679459.
- Geography
- Mauritius