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 monitoring programs, and the World Bank's Development Research Group. The dataset is published under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Assessing the extent and causes of poverty based on reported poverty measures.
- Examining inequality trends using generated inequality indicators.
- Analyzing the impact of growth and public policy based on analytical work described.
- Reviewing household survey data and measurement methods referenced in the description.
Strengths
- Data originates from the World Bank's Development Research Group, which has produced comparable global estimates since 1990.
- Includes measures from both analytical reports and national poverty monitoring programs.
- Published under the 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.
- Freshness should be verified as the last update date is 2026-04-28.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Group
- Collection Method
- Analytical work conducted in collaboration with national institutions, development agencies, and civil society, using household survey data.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 10:10:53.329474
- Geography
- Nauru