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We discuss this measure and the data in more detail on our page on [economic inequality](https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality).\n- This data comes from the [World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform](https://pip.worldbank.org/), which is based on a large collection of national survey data. To achieve wide coverage, it pools data from two kinds of surveys. For high-income countries, the data measures people's incomes after taxes and benefits. For most low- and middle-income countries, it instead measures their consumption — a different but [closely related](#dod:read-more-income-consumption-pip) measure.\n- In lower-income countries, many people produce food for their own use or exchange goods without money. This data accounts for that by estimating what these goods would have cost if bought in the market and adding that value to their consumption or income.\n- The exact surveys that countries run can change over time, creating breaks across which data points are less comparable. The World Bank provides an indicator of where these breaks occur, and this chart gives the option to show the breaks.\n- For a small number of countries and years, the data source provides two estimates: one measuring households' income and one measuring consumption. To show a single series over time, we keep only one of these observations. You can see which measure each data point corresponds to by selecting the option to show breaks in the data.","origins":[{"id":15569,"title":"World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP): Percentiles","description":"The _Poverty and Inequality Platform: Percentiles_ database reports 100 points ranked according to the consumption or income distributions for country-year survey data available in the World Bank’s [Poverty and Inequality Platform](https://pip.worldbank.org/home) (PIP). As of March 24, 2025, a total of 2,584 country-year data points, which include 2,403 distributions based on microdata, [binned data](https://datanalytics.worldbank.org/PIP-Methodology/acquiring.html#selection), or imputed/synthetic data, and 181 based on [grouped data](https://datanalytics.worldbank.org/PIP-Methodology/acquiring.html#grouped). For the grouped data, the percentiles are derived by fitting a parametric Lorenz distribution following [Datt (1998)](https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/94862/). For ease of communication, all distributions are referred to as survey data henceforth, and the welfare variable is referred to as income.\n\nWe complement the original country files available in [World Bank's Databank](https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0063646/_poverty_and_inequality_platform_pip_percentiles) with regional percentile distributions, which we build from the World Bank's [1000 Binned Global Distribution](https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0064304) file (2021 PPP).","producer":"World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform","citationFull":"- World Bank (2026). Poverty and Inequality Platform: percentiles [Data set]. World Bank Group. https://pip.worldbank.org/.\n- World Bank (2026). Poverty and Inequality Platform (version 20260324_2021 and 20260324_2017) [Data set]. World Bank Group. https://pip.worldbank.org/.","versionProducer":"Version 16","urlMain":"https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0063646/_poverty_and_inequality_platform_pip_percentiles","dateAccessed":"2026-06-26","datePublished":"2026-03-24","license":{"url":"https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0063646/_poverty_and_inequality_platform_pip_percentiles","name":"CC0"}}]}