World Bank poverty and inequality measures for Sri Lanka, generated from analytical reports and national monitoring programs. The data includes internationally comparable global poverty estimates and lines produced by the World Bank's Development Research Group since 1990. It was last updated on HDX on 2026-04-28.
Use Cases
- Assess the extent and causes of poverty based on household survey data mentioned in the description
- Examine the impact of economic growth and public policy on inequality measures described
- Review poverty measurement methods and survey data referenced in the analytical work
- Compare poverty estimates with international lines produced since 1990
Strengths
- Data is produced by the World Bank's Development Research Group, a leading authority on global poverty.
- Includes internationally comparable poverty estimates and lines with a methodology dating back to 1990.
- Derived from analytical work conducted in collaboration with national institutions and civil society.
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 assessing poverty, combining reports, national monitoring programs, and household survey data.
- Time Range
- Includes estimates produced since 1990; specific temporal coverage of the dataset is unknown.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 06:20:50.067479; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Sri Lanka