World Bank poverty and inequality measures for Senegal, 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 under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated in April 2026.
Use Cases
- Assessing the extent and causes of poverty in Senegal based on poverty measures.
- Examining the impact of growth and public policy on inequality based on inequality measures.
- Reviewing household survey data and measurement methods for poverty monitoring.
- Comparing poverty estimates against international poverty lines.
Strengths
- Data is produced by the World Bank's Development Research Group, which has been generating comparable global poverty estimates since 1990.
- Derived from analytical work conducted in collaboration with national institutions, development agencies, and civil society.
- 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.
- Time Range
- Data production referenced since 1990; specific temporal coverage for Senegal is not stated.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 10:55:32.204158; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Senegal