Data from the World Bank's poverty monitoring program for Sudan, 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 in CSV format under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Assessing the extent and causes of poverty in Sudan based on internationally comparable measures.
- Examining the impact of economic growth and public policy on inequality using analytical report data.
- Reviewing household survey data and measurement methods for poverty monitoring.
- Conducting comparative analysis of poverty trends using estimates produced since 1990.
Strengths
- Includes internationally comparable poverty estimates produced by the World Bank's Development Research Group since 1990.
- Data is generated from analytical reports and national poverty monitoring programs, suggesting a structured source.
- Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and dataset size are 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
- Data production referenced from 1990 onward; specific temporal coverage of the dataset is not stated.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 10:51:30.846199; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Sudan