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Proportion of people living below 50 percent of median income (%)

Indicator from the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform measuring the proportion of people living in households with per capita income or consumption below 50% of the median, covering all countries and economies.

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Key facts

InstitutionWorld Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform
CoverageAll countries and economies
Time spanSee official page
ScaleSee official page
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
AccessWorld Bank API or DataBank

Contents & fields

This dataset contains the World Bank indicator SI.DST.50MD, the proportion of people living below 50 percent of median income. Data are based on household surveys, provided by country, year, and value. No field-level description is disclosed on the source page.

Research uses

Can be used for studies on income inequality, poverty measurement, social welfare policy evaluation, etc.

This card was drafted from the source page; institution, coverage, time span, scale, fields and license are subject to the official page (pending human review).

Keywords

income inequalitypovertymedian incomeWorld Bankhousehold surveyPPP

Access & license

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | Free to access

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Why this is hard to get on your own

When obtaining global income inequality indicators, one often needs to integrate data from multiple sources, and definitions and survey methods vary widely.

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