{"id":1210738,"name":"Number of people in poverty ($3 a day)","unit":"people","createdAt":"2026-04-13T08:27:46.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-04-13T08:27:46.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"1981-2050","datasetId":7794,"shortUnit":"","columnOrder":0,"shortName":"headcount__povertyline_300","catalogPath":"grapher/wb/2026-03-25/poverty_projections/poverty_projections#headcount__povertyline_300","dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":1981},{"id":1982},{"id":1983},{"id":1984},{"id":1985},{"id":1986},{"id":1987},{"id":1988},{"id":1989},{"id":1990},{"id":1991},{"id":1992},{"id":1993},{"id":1994},{"id":1995},{"id":1996},{"id":1997},{"id":1998},{"id":1999},{"id":2000},{"id":2001},{"id":2002},{"id":2003},{"id":2004},{"id":2005},{"id":2006},{"id":2007},{"id":2008},{"id":2009},{"id":2010},{"id":2011},{"id":2012},{"id":2013},{"id":2014},{"id":2015},{"id":2016},{"id":2017},{"id":2018},{"id":2019},{"id":2020},{"id":2021},{"id":2022},{"id":2023},{"id":2024},{"id":2025},{"id":2026},{"id":2027},{"id":2028},{"id":2029},{"id":2030},{"id":2031},{"id":2032},{"id":2033},{"id":2034},{"id":2035},{"id":2036},{"id":2037},{"id":2038},{"id":2039},{"id":2040},{"id":2041},{"id":2042},{"id":2043},{"id":2044},{"id":2045},{"id":2046},{"id":2047},{"id":2048},{"id":2049},{"id":2050}]},"entities":{"values":[{"id":349172,"name":"East Asia and Pacific (WB)","code":"WB_EAP"},{"id":349171,"name":"Europe and Central Asia (WB)","code":"WB_ECA"},{"id":349170,"name":"Latin America and Caribbean (WB)","code":"WB_LAC"},{"id":372001,"name":"Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan (WB)","code":"WB_MENAP"},{"id":278896,"name":"North America (WB)","code":"WB_NA"},{"id":277956,"name":"South Asia (WB)","code":"WB_SA"},{"id":277950,"name":"Sub-Saharan Africa (WB)","code":"WB_SSA"},{"id":355,"name":"World","code":"OWID_WRL"}]}},"descriptionShort":"Number of people living in households with an income or consumption below $3 per day","descriptionProcessing":"We obtained regional estimates of the number in poverty by summing the number of people in poverty in each region. For global estimates, we proceeded in a similar way, but summing the regional data. To calculate the share in poverty, we divided these results by the total population in each region or globally, and multiplied by 100 to get a percentage.","type":"int","grapherConfigIdETL":"019d85f4-334e-73d3-94a3-979a3554e358","datasetName":"Poverty projections from World Bank PIP","updatePeriodDays":180,"datasetVersion":"2026-03-25","nonRedistributable":false,"display":{"name":"Number of people in poverty ($3 a day)","unit":"people","tolerance":0,"roundingMode":"significantFigures","numDecimalPlaces":0,"numSignificantFigures":3},"schemaVersion":2,"processingLevel":"major","presentation":{"titleVariant":"Historical estimates with projections","attributionShort":"World Bank","topicTagsLinks":["Poverty"]},"descriptionKey":["The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than $3 per day. This threshold, known as the [\"International Poverty Line\"](#dod:international-poverty-line), is set so that poverty can be compared across countries. This indicator plays an important and successful role in focusing the world's attention on the very poorest people. The UN uses this indicator to track progress towards [ending extreme poverty by 2030](https://ourworldindata.org/sdgs/no-poverty).","Two centuries ago, most of the world's population was extremely poor. Many believed that widespread poverty was inevitable. But this turned out to be wrong. Economic growth is possible, and poverty can decline. With this poverty line, we can track whether countries are leaving the worst poverty behind.","This data is expressed in constant international dollars to adjust for inflation and differences in living costs between countries. Read more in our article, [What are international dollars?](https://ourworldindata.org/international-dollars)","Many people, today and in the past, have no monetary income. This data accounts for this by including the estimated value of non-market income, such as food grown by subsistence farmers for their own use.","The data refers to income (after taxes and benefits) or to consumption, [per capita](#dod:per-capita).","This data combines data based on household surveys or extrapolated up until the year of the data release using GDP per capita growth estimates and forecasts, with projections from 2027-2030 based on GDP per capita growth projections from the World Bank's Global Economic Prospects (January 2026), supplemented by IMF's World Economic Outlook (October 2025). For the period 2031-2050, the data is projected using the average annual historical GDP per capita growth over 2015-2024."],"origins":[{"id":14320,"titleSnapshot":"Poverty projections from World Bank PIP - Country-level historical and projected poverty rates","title":"Poverty projections from World Bank PIP","descriptionSnapshot":"Historical poverty rates from 1981 to 2026 from PIP and projected poverty rates from 2027 to 2050.","description":"This dataset was created using the March 2026 vintage of [Poverty and Inequality Platform](https://pip.worldbank.org/home) (PIP). This dataset contains a series of country-level and global-level poverty rate projections up to 2050, updating the projections reported in [Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report (2024)](https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/poverty-prosperity-and-planet). The methodology and the reproducibility package for the projections can be found [here](https://reproducibility.worldbank.org/catalog/250).","producer":"Lakner et al.","citationFull":"Lakner, C., Genoni, M. E., Stemmler, H., Yonzan, N., & Tetteh Baah, S. K. (2025). Reproducibility package for Poverty, Prosperity and Planet Report 2024. World Bank. https://doi.org/10.60572/01JA-MK74. Updated with Poverty and Inequality Platform (March 2026).","attribution":"Lakner et al. (2025) (updated using World Bank PIP in March 2026)","urlMain":"https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0067066/pip-poverty-projections","urlDownload":"https://datacatalogfiles.worldbank.org/ddh-published/0067066/DR0096010/Country_FGT_1981_2050_20260324_2021_01_02_PROD.dta","dateAccessed":"2026-04-02","datePublished":"2025-03-31","license":{"url":"https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0067066/pip-poverty-projections","name":"CC0"}}]}