Global Extreme Poverty Dollar a Day

Dataset

DOI

The extreme poverty rate represents the share of the people in a country below a poverty line. Here two such lines are used: a cost of basic needs approach following Allen (2017), and the short cut approach of the 1.9 dollar-a-day. The estimates cover the period 1820-2018 (yearly).

Identifier
DOI	https://doi.org/10.34894/LVAKCN
Metadata Access	https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/LVAKCN

Provenance
Creator	Moatsos, Michail
Publisher	DataverseNL
Contributor	Moatsos, Michail
Publication Year	2026
Rights	CC0-1.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
OpenAccess	true
Contact	Moatsos, Michail (Utrecht University)

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Resource Type	Dataset
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Size	20480; 333267
Version	1.0
Discipline	Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences