Data from the World Bank's poverty monitoring program, last updated on 2026-04-28. It includes poverty and inequality measures generated from analytical reports, national programs, and the Bank's Development Research Group, which has produced comparable global estimates since 1990. The dataset is provided by the World Bank Group under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Assessing the extent and causes of poverty based on internationally comparable estimates.
- Examining the impact of economic growth and public policy on inequality measures.
- Reviewing household survey data and measurement methods for poverty monitoring.
- Conducting comparative analysis using poverty lines established since 1990.
Strengths
- Internationally comparable poverty estimates and lines produced since 1990.
- Data generated from analytical reports and national poverty monitoring programs.
- Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
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 for Monaco is not stated.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 08:06:30.919294; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Monaco