The World Bank Group uses the latest data, evidence, and analysis to help countries develop policies that can reduce poverty and inequality, and ultimately improve people's lives.

To track progress toward the World Bank Group’s vision of a world free of poverty on a livable planet, it is necessary to regularly measure poverty through the collection and analysis of timely and robust data.

Oct 24, 2025 · The Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) seeks to understand poverty beyond monetary deprivations (which remain the focal point of the World Bank’s monitoring of global poverty) …

Jun 5, 2025 · The World Bank has updated its global poverty lines. This latest revision uses 2021 purchasing power parities, as well as updated national poverty lines that better capture countries’ …

Jun 13, 2025 · Measuring poverty on a regular basis using timely and relevant data is critical to tracking progress toward this goal. The World Bank does this at the global level using three international …

Jan 13, 2016 · The World Bank measures global poverty by setting an absolute international poverty line and seeking to keep the line's real value constant even as relative prices change. Collecting data on …

Apr 28, 2021 · Three complementary concepts: Learning poverty level, gap, and severity The learning poverty level (or headcount ratio) shown above, that is the share of 10-year-olds who are not in …

Explore World Bank group data and analysis on global development topics like poverty reduction, education, health, economic growth, and more.

The Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides a global audience with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity.

Jun 8, 2016 · Ending Extreme Poverty STORY HIGHLIGHTS In a wide-ranging interview that was first published in The Christian Century, Ana Revenga, senior director of the Poverty and Equity Global …