Data Updates
PIP data update on Sep 20, 2024
This update involves several changes to the data underlying global poverty estimates. The database now includes 16 new country-years, bringing the total number of surveys to nearly 2,400. This update incorporates new methodologies for measuring global poverty and introduces new indicators of shared prosperity: the Prosperity Gap and the number of economies with high income inequality. It also incorporates two new analytical dashboards: growth incidence curves and poverty decompositions. Depending on the availability of recent survey data, global and regional poverty estimates are reported up to 2022. For the first time, PIP also includes country-level, regional, and global poverty nowcast estimates up to 2024. Further details on the changes are available in [this document](https://documents1.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099913509172439457).
PIP data update on Mar 26, 2024
This update involves several changes to the data underlying global poverty estimates. Some welfare aggregates were revised, while CPI, national accounts, and population input data was updated. 101 new country-years were added, for a total of more than 2,300 surveys in PIP. For first time, PIP is reporting estimates post COVID-19 pandemic, with regional and global poverty rates up to 2022. Further details on the changes are available in [this document](https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099839303252425642/idu1d671646616eef14bb31a2ba103042c40ae3c).
PIP data update on Sep 19, 2023
This update revises the previously published global and regional estimates from 1981 to 2021. 63 new surveys were added (largely historical data for advanced economies), bringing the total surveys in PIP to more than 2,200. Furthermore, 2 surveys were added for 2019 and 13 for more recent years. The new survey data covers the COVID-19 pandemic period, reporting 2020 regional poverty for all regions except Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa. Further details on the changes are available in [this document](https://documents1.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099624209142386941).
PIP data update on March 29, 2023
This update involves several changes to the data underlying global poverty estimates. Some welfare aggregates were revised, while CPI, national accounts, and population input data were updated. 113 new country-years were added, for a total of more than 2,100 surveys in PIP. Global poverty estimates are reported up to 2019 while earlier years were revised. Regional poverty estimates in 2020 and 2021 are reported only for regions with sufficient survey data coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic. Further details on the changes are available in [this document](http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099923403272329672/IDU089370bcb048b9044fd0ab49037249b87aef6).
PIP data update on September 09, 2022
The semi-annual update to PIP presents new global poverty estimates for 2019 and revises previously published estimates, as a results of the adoption of 2017 PPPs and of new available data for India. Further details on the changes are available in [this document](https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099700509122212929/idu05b43a261041c504a5f0bb3405d0ef310b9e1).
PIP data update on June 22, 2022
Changes in national accounts data in Syrian Arab Republic are documented in this post.
PIP data update on May 9, 2022
This intermediate PIP update corrects several errors as documented in this post.
PIP data update on April 08, 2022
The semi-annual update to PIP presents new global poverty estimates for 2018 and revises previously published estimates, as a result of newly available survey data (a large number of new country-years have been added) and several changes to the underlying data. Further details on the changes are available in [this document](https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099422404082231105/idu02070690808ee7044720a1e6010de398e6a75).
PovcalNet What is New
This page is a replica of the old "What is New" section in the now deprecated PovcalNet system (replaced by PIP). The intention of this page it to keep institutional memory publicly available.