Poverty and Inequality Platform, World Bank

Summary

The Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) is an interactive computational tool that offers users quick access to the World Bank’s estimates of poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity. PIP provides a comprehensive view of global, regional, and country-level trends for more than 160 economies around the world. All poverty and inequality indicators are organized under the dropdown “Data”, where users can access the different measures. The visualizations available allow for multiple ways to explore PIP indicators, from cross-country and regional analyses, to country-specific and subnational, while other pages provide in-depth analyses by topic.

The last update was in June 2025. This update brought an additional 74 country-year datapoints (countries such as Barbados and Equatorial Guinea) to the PIP database and improved existing data for another 90 country-years. A detailed update can be found here.

Tables in IFs

Following data tables from IFs are pulled from PIP, with 7 in total, copied from DataDict.

Variable	Definition	UsedInPreprocessor	UsedInHistAnalog	UsedInFunctions
IncBelow2D15c%PIP	Percent of population living on less than $2.15 per day, estimation by PIP	TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
IncBelow3D65c%PIP	Percent of population living on less than $3.65 per day, estimation by PIP	TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
IncBelow6D85c%PIP	Percent of population living on less than $6.85 per day, estimation by PIP	TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
IncMedPIP	Median income estimated by PIP from WorldBank, $2017 PPP per day	FALSE	FALSE	FALSE
PovGap2D15cperDayPIP	Mean shortfall in income or consumption from the poverty line $2.15 a day, expressed as a percentage of the poverty line. Estimation by PIP	FALSE	FALSE	FALSE
PovGap3D55cperDayPIP	Mean shortfall in income or consumption from the poverty line $3.65 a day, expressed as a percentage of the poverty line. Estimation by PIP	FALSE	FALSE	FALSE
PovGap6D85cperDayPIP	Mean shortfall in income or consumption from the poverty line $6.85 a day, expressed as a percentage of the poverty line. Estimation by PIP	FALSE	FALSE	FALSE

Data Instruction

1. Go to this site (https://pip.worldbank.org/home). Make sure the mode is 2017 PPP.
   
2. Select Poverty Rate. The data you need will show up in one excel (ie if you need the poverty rate and gap for $2.15, it will show up in one excel). You do not need to select any other indicator or countries.
3. Click Advanced options and choose Display Interpolated Values. Then click download and choose download all country data. While the excel file has different indicators you do need to download different excels for the different dollar amounts (you will have one excel for $2.15, another for $3.65, etc).
   
4. Filter your data by national (except for Argentina, we can use urban data. For all the other countries it must be national.) headcount, poverty_gap, and median (median is the same in all excel files) will be the indicators for your data.

Notes

For the series:

• IncBelow2D15c%PIP
• IncBelow3D65c%PIP
• IncBelow6D85c%PIP
• PovGap2D15cperDayPIP
• PovGap3D55cperDayPIP
• PovGap6D85cperDayPIP

Multiply the data points by 100 to get the percentage values.

For Argentina, we can use urban data. For all the other countries it must be national.

For a country concordance table for the World Bank check this GitHub Repo.