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World Development Indicators: Poverty
25 World Development Indicators on poverty, annual, from 1960 where the World Bank has them, for all reporting economies and aggregates. Includes: Population living in slums (% of urban population); Income share held by second 20%; Income share held by third 20%.
Definitions and method
Compiled by the World Bank in World Development Indicators from official national and international sources, listed against each indicator by the World Bank. Some series come from third parties, so their own terms may apply beyond the World Bank's CC BY 4.0: check the source named for the indicator before redistributing. Sources in this set include: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departme; Urban Indicators Database, UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat); Alkire, S., Mishra, R., Selden, L. and Suppa, N. (2025). ‘The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2025: Country results and methodological note’, OPHI MPI Methodo; World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are compiled from official government sources or are computed by World Bank staff using national (i.e. country–specific). Cells with no value are not stored.
| Indicator | Code | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Population living in slums (% of urban population) | EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS | — |
| Income share held by second 20% | SI.DST.02ND.20 | — |
| Income share held by third 20% | SI.DST.03RD.20 | — |
| Income share held by fourth 20% | SI.DST.04TH.20 | — |
| Income share held by highest 20% | SI.DST.05TH.20 | — |
| Income share held by highest 10% | SI.DST.10TH.10 | — |
| Proportion of people living below 50 percent of median income (%) | SI.DST.50MD | — |
| Income share held by lowest 10% | SI.DST.FRST.10 | — |
| Income share held by lowest 20% | SI.DST.FRST.20 | — |
| Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population) | SI.POV.DDAY | — |
| Poverty gap at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (%) | SI.POV.GAPS | — |
| Gini index | SI.POV.GINI | — |
| Poverty headcount ratio at $4.20 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population) | SI.POV.LMIC | — |
| Poverty gap at $4.20 a day (2021 PPP) (%) | SI.POV.LMIC.GP | — |
| Multidimensional poverty headcount ratio (UNDP & OPHI) (% of population) | SI.POV.MPUN | — |
| Multidimensional poverty headcount ratio (World Bank) (% of population) | SI.POV.MPWB | — |
| Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) | SI.POV.NAHC | — |
| Poverty headcount ratio at societal poverty line (% of population) | SI.POV.SOPO | — |
| Poverty headcount ratio at $8.30 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population) | SI.POV.UMIC | — |
| Poverty gap at $8.30 a day (2021 PPP) (%) | SI.POV.UMIC.GP | — |
| Survey mean consumption or income per capita, bottom 40% of population (2021 PPP $ per day) | SI.SPR.PC40 | — |
| Annualized average growth rate in per capita real survey mean consumption or income, bottom 40% of population (%) | SI.SPR.PC40.ZG | — |
| Survey mean consumption or income per capita, total population (2021 PPP $ per day) | SI.SPR.PCAP | — |
| Annualized average growth rate in per capita real survey mean consumption or income, total population (%) | SI.SPR.PCAP.ZG | — |
| Prosperity gap (average shortfall from a prosperity standard of $28/day) | SI.SPR.PGAP | — |