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The world by income. Source: World Bank Group. Note: (1) Countries are classified each year on July 1, the start of the World Bank fiscal year, based on GNI per capita data (World Bank Atlas method) for the previous calendar year. For FY25 the classification uses GNI per capita for 2023. (2) Map boundaries represent boundaries as of 2020 and do ...
The income classification is based on a measure of national income per person, or GNI per capita, calculated using the Atlas method. In 1978, the first World Development Report introduced groupings of "low income" and "middle income" countries using a threshold of $250 per capita income as threshold between the groups. In the 1983 WDR, the ...
The Global Consumption Database is a one-stop source of data on household consumption patterns in developing countries. It is designed to serve a wide range of users—from researchers seeking data for analytical studies to businesses seeking a better understanding of the markets into which they are expanding or those they are already serving.
Overall, there is a positive correlation between waste generation and income level. Daily per capita waste generation in high-income countries is projected to increase by 19 percent by 2050, compared to low- and middle-income countries where it is expected to increase by approximately 40% or more.
Classified according to World Bank estimates of 2016 GNI per capita (current US dollars, Atlas method) Low income (less than $1,005) Lower middle income ($1,006–$3,955)
They are based on global income distribution data, which rank the global population by income per capita. The lowest consumption segment corresponds to the bottom half of the global distribution, or the 50th percentile and below; the low consumption segment to the 51th–75th percentiles; the middle consumption segment to the 76th–90th ...
The world by income, FY2017. Classified according to World Bank estimates of 2015 GNI per capita (current US dollar, Atlas method) Note: The World Bank classifies economies as low-income, lower-middle-income, upper-middle-income, or high-income based on gross national income (GNI) per capita.
The societal poverty line is given as: max ($2.15, $1.15 + 50% of median consumption or income) in 2017 PPP. That means a person is living in societal poverty if they are living on less than 1.15 dollars a day plus 50 percent of daily median consumption (or income) in their country of residence.
Growth in the economy is measured by the change in GDP at constant price. Many WDI indicators use GDP or GDP per capita as a denominator to enable cross-country comparisons of socioeconomic and other data. Also widely used in assessing a country’s wealth and capacity to provide for its people is Gross National Income (GNI) per capita - the ...
Keep in mind also that the scenarios above calculate the carbon costs of ending extreme poverty, measured as the typical poverty line of low-income countries. If all countries need to eradicate poverty as defined by the typical upper middle-income country, $6.85 per day, it would require 46 percent of global emissions.