September 2019 PovcalNet Update : What's New

Atamanov, Aziz ; Castaneda Aguilar, R. Andres ; Diaz-Bonilla, Carolina ; Jolliffe, Dean ; Lakner, Christoph ; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon ; Montes, Jose ; Moreno Herrera, Laura Liliana ; Newhouse, David ; Nguyen, Minh C. ; Prydz, Espen Beer ; Sangraula, Prem ; Tandon, Sharad Alan ; Yang, Judy

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: POVERTY MEASUREMENT;    POVERTY LINE;    INEQUALITY;   

RP-ID  :  142013

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The September 2019 global poverty updatefrom the World Bank includes revised survey data which leadto minor changes in the most recent global povertyestimates. The update includes revisions to 18 surveys fromfour countries. As a result of the revised data, theestimate of the global 1.90 US Dollars headcount ratio for2015 increases slightly from 9.94 percent to 9.98 percent,whereas the number of poor increases from 731.0 million to734.5 million people.