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Data on Poverty from the World Bank, OECD and United Nations

This page provides information and data on poverty monitoring. Specifically, it includes:

Trends in regional indicators
- Income poverty
- Social indicators
Poverty Monitoring Database
Country level indicators:
Strategy 21 indicators
Social indicators

Feature

December 1999 Report: Trends in Poverty and Voices of the Poor: prospects for poverty reduction, latest data on income poverty and social indicators, and results from the "Consultations with the Poor" study

Household surveys:
- Inventory of surveys by region, country and year
- Results from the 1998 World Bank Census of household surveys
- Link to the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) web site
- Link to the Household Expenditure and Income Data for Transitional Economies (HEIDE) web site
Participatory studies:
- Inventory of participatory poverty studies
Country data sets:
- India Poverty Project

Country level indicators:

Estimates of income poverty

Download the most recent estimates of income poverty from the World Bank's World Development Indicators (PDF file, 146 kb).
A map by the OECD on the incidence of extreme poverty.

Estimates of inequality

Download the most recent estimates of income inequality from the World Bank's World Development Indicators (PDF file, 137 kb).
Measures of income inequality: data by Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire on Gini coefficients, cumulative quintile shares, explanations regarding the basis on which the Gini coefficient was computed, and the source of the information.
A map by the OECD on the poorest fifth’s share of national consumption.

World Income Inequality Database (WIID):

This database includes information on income inequality for industrialized, developing and transition countries over the 1997-1999 period. A joint project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations University/World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER), the database is available to download from both web sites.

Strategy 21 goals:

For the most recent estimates of the indicators selected by the OECD, the United Nations and the World Bank to track progress in achieving the Strategy 21 goals, see the OECD/DAC site.

Social Indicators:

The World Bank social indicators are now available from the Poverty Monitoring Database.
UN social indicators from the UN Statistics Division.

Country data sets

The India poverty project assembled detailed nationwide and state-level statistics from 1950 to 1994 on expenditures, National Accounts, prices, wages, population, and others. The complete data are now available on line.
- Read about the India Poverty Project, its approach and findings.
- Read an Introduction to the data sets, what they contain, and ways you can access and use them.