World Vitals / Income poverty and living standards
Track poverty indicators, poverty lines, and living-standard measures.
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
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.
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The international poverty line provides a comparable global headline before national poverty lines are added.
Hover or focus a point for exact date, value, unit, and source.
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Slum-population share adds a housing and infrastructure dimension to the poverty page.
Hover or focus a point for exact date, value, unit, and source.
Metric snapshots
Snapshot and live-rate cards are kept separate from historical charts so they do not pretend to show a trend.
Latest World Bank world GDP value in current US dollars.
World Bank / 2024Live-rate estimate from latest annual world GDP. It is an economic tempo indicator, not real-time accounting.
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