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World Vitals / Income poverty and living standards

Poverty

Track poverty indicators, poverty lines, and living-standard measures.

What this page shows

Poverty pages should make poverty line, price basis, welfare measure, and population coverage visible.

The primary charts now come from normalized database observations. Snapshot cards remain useful for latest values, but time series and paired relationships get chart types that match the question.

Database charts

Poverty over time and in context

These charts use normalized observations from the World Vitals database. Time-series charts show change; scatter plots show paired relationships where the data actually supports comparison.

World Bank

Extreme poverty is the core poverty baseline

The international poverty line provides a comparable global headline before national poverty lines are added.

10.42024

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7.528.85019812024
202410.4 percent of populationWorld Bank

World Bank

Urban slum exposure shows living-condition pressure

Slum-population share adds a housing and infrastructure dimension to the poverty page.

23.232022

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19.421.423.520182022
202223.23 percent of urban populationWorld Bank

Metric snapshots

Poverty latest values

Snapshot and live-rate cards are kept separate from historical charts so they do not pretend to show a trend.

Economylatest annual

World GDP

$110.98T
current US dollars2024latest annual

Latest World Bank world GDP value in current US dollars.

World Bank / 2024
Economyestimated live

Economic output this year

$39.41T
current US dollars2024estimated live

Live-rate estimate from latest annual world GDP. It is an economic tempo indicator, not real-time accounting.

World Bank / 2024

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