Global Extreme Poverty Dollar a Day estimates, 1820-2018

Dataset

Description

The extreme poverty rate represents the share of the people in a country below a poverty line. Here two such lines are used: a cost of basic needs approach following Allen (2017), and the short cut approach of the 1.9 dollar-a-day. The estimates cover the period 1820-2018 (yearly).
Date made available20 Jul 2021
PublisherInternational Institute of Social History
Temporal coverage1 Jan 1820 - 31 Dec 2018
Geographical coverageGlobal

Keywords

  • poverty

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