Inequality and Shared Prosperity

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Poverty and Equity Assessments

Poverty and Equity Assessments are evidence-driven, core diagnostic tools for understanding who the poor and vulnerable are, and the drivers behind recent changes in poverty and inequality.
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Updated estimates of the Prosperity Gap

Updated Prosperity Gap estimates at the global, regional, and country level are now available in a new dashboard.

Inequality and Shared Prosperity At-A-Glance

One of the twin goals of the World Bank Group is to promote shared prosperity, which reflects the extent to which economic growth is inclusive. 2020 marked a historic turning point—an era of global income convergence gave way to global divergence. The world’s poorest people bore the steepest costs of the pandemic. Incomes in the poorest countries fell much more than incomes in rich countries. As a result, the income losses of the world’s poorest were twice as high as the world’s richest, and global inequality rose for the first time in decades.

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Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report 2022

Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting Course

The world is unlikely to meet the goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 absent history-defying rates of economic growth over the remainder of this decade, according to the latest Poverty and Shared Prosperity report.

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Poverty

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Measuring Poverty

To monitor progress in poverty reduction, we need to regularly measure poverty

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Extreme poverty, 2015-2022

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After several decades of continuous global poverty reduction, a period of significant crises and shocks resulted in around three years of lost progress between 2020-2022. Low-income countries, which saw poverty increase during this period, have not yet recovered and are not closing the gap.