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Latest poverty and inequality indicators compiled from officially recognized international sources. Poverty indicators include the poverty headcount ratio, poverty gap, and number of poor at both international and national poverty lines. Inequality indicators include the Gini index and income or consumption distributions. The database includes national, regional and global estimates.

This database is maintained by the Gloabl Poverty Working Group (GPWG), a team of poverty measurement experts from the Poverty Reduction and Equity Network, the Development Research Group, and the Development Data Group.

Context This is a dataset hosted by the World Bank. The organization has an open data platform found [here](https://databank.worldbank.org/) and they update their information according the amount of data that is brought in. Explore the World Bank using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the World Bank [organization page](https://www.kaggle.com/theworldbank)! * Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily. Acknowledgements This dataset is maintained using the World Bank's [APIs](data.worldbank.org/developers) and Kaggle's [API](https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api). [Cover photo](https://unsplash.com/photos/LyKtSrQhBuc) by [Yanni Panesa](https://unsplash.com/@yannipanini) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/) _Unsplash Images are distributed under a unique [Unsplash License](https://unsplash.com/license)._