World Bank Group data includes poverty and inequality measures for Namibia, generated from analytical reports, national monitoring programs, and the Bank's Development Research Group. The dataset is available in CSV format and was last updated on 2026-04-28. It originates from the World Bank's data portal and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Assessing the extent and causes of poverty in Namibia based on internationally comparable poverty estimates.
- Examining the impact of economic growth and public policy on inequality using measures from national monitoring programs.
- Reviewing household survey data and measurement methods for poverty analysis as described in World Bank reports.
Strengths
- Data is produced by the World Bank's Development Research Group, which has been generating global poverty estimates since 1990.
- Includes measures from both national poverty monitoring programs and World Bank analytical reports.
- Available 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
- Generated from analytical reports, national poverty monitoring programs, and the World Bank's Development Research Group.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 09:57:25.110703; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Namibia