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PIP provides a comprehensive view of global, regional, and country-level trends for over 170 economies around the world.", "citation_full": "World Bank (2026). Poverty and Inequality Platform (version 20260922_2021 and 20260922_2017) [Data set]. World Bank Group. https://pip.worldbank.org/.", "version_producer": "20260922_2021, 20260922_2017", "url_main": "https://pip.worldbank.org", "date_accessed": "2026-09-22", "date_published": "2026-09-22", "license": { "name": "CC0", "url": "https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0063646" } } ], "unit": "", "short_unit": "", "display": { "name": "Gini coefficient around <>" }, "processing_level": "major", "presentation": { "topic_tags": [ "Economic Inequality" ] }, "description_processing": "<% if only_all_series == \"All data points\" %>\nWe obtained the series for each indicator by extracting the closest observations to <>, respectively. The maximum distance between the year available and the year of reference is 5 years.\n\nWe have also included some exclusions for the years we could extract. We excluded the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to avoid capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We also excluded years before 1990 to avoid capturing data for countries in socialist regimes.\n\nAdditionally, for the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform dataset, we rank multiple matchings following this order of preference:\n 1. The same welfare concept (first income, then consumption).\n 2. The same reporting level (first national, then urban, then rural, then different).\n<%- elif only_all_series == \"Only countries in all sources\" %>\nWe obtained the series for each indicator by extracting the closest observations to <>, respectively. The maximum distance between the year available and the year of reference is 5 years.\n\nWe have also included some exclusions for the years we could extract. We excluded the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to avoid capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We also excluded years before 1990 to avoid capturing data for countries in socialist regimes.\n\nAdditionally, for the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform dataset, we rank multiple matchings following this order of preference:\n 1. The same welfare concept (first income, then consumption).\n 2. The same reporting level (first national, then urban, then rural, then different).\n\nFinally, this dataset includes only the countries that are available in both the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform and the World Inequality Database. We applied this restriction so we can compare the results across these two sources more effectively.\n<%- endif %>" }, "gini_wid_pretaxnational_peradult": { "title": "Gini coefficient (WID) for the year <> (<> comparison) - <> (pre-tax)", "origins": [ { "producer": "World Inequality Database (WID.world)", "title": "World Inequality Database (WID)", "description": "The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.", "title_snapshot": "World Inequality Database (WID) \u2013 Key indicators", "citation_full": "World Inequality Database (WID), https://wid.world", "attribution_short": "WID", "url_main": "https://wid.world", "date_accessed": "2026-07-07", "date_published": "2026", "license": { "name": "CC BY 4.0", "url": "https://wid.world/" } }, { "producer": "World Inequality Database (WID.world)", "title": "World Inequality Database (WID)", "description": "The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.", "title_snapshot": "World Inequality Database (WID) \u2013 Key indicators (with extrapolations)", "citation_full": "World Inequality Database (WID), https://wid.world", "attribution_short": "WID", "url_main": "https://wid.world", "date_accessed": "2026-07-07", "date_published": "2026", "license": { "name": "CC BY 4.0", "url": "https://wid.world/" } } ], "unit": "", "short_unit": "", "display": { "name": "Gini coefficient around <>" }, "processing_level": "major", "presentation": { "topic_tags": [ "Economic Inequality" ] }, "description_processing": "<% if only_all_series == \"All data points\" %>\nWe obtained the series for each indicator by extracting the closest observations to <>, respectively. The maximum distance between the year available and the year of reference is 5 years.\n\nWe have also included some exclusions for the years we could extract. We excluded the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to avoid capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We also excluded years before 1990 to avoid capturing data for countries in socialist regimes.\n\nAdditionally, for the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform dataset, we rank multiple matchings following this order of preference:\n 1. The same welfare concept (first income, then consumption).\n 2. The same reporting level (first national, then urban, then rural, then different).\n<%- elif only_all_series == \"Only countries in all sources\" %>\nWe obtained the series for each indicator by extracting the closest observations to <>, respectively. The maximum distance between the year available and the year of reference is 5 years.\n\nWe have also included some exclusions for the years we could extract. We excluded the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to avoid capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We also excluded years before 1990 to avoid capturing data for countries in socialist regimes.\n\nAdditionally, for the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform dataset, we rank multiple matchings following this order of preference:\n 1. The same welfare concept (first income, then consumption).\n 2. The same reporting level (first national, then urban, then rural, then different).\n\nFinally, this dataset includes only the countries that are available in both the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform and the World Inequality Database. We applied this restriction so we can compare the results across these two sources more effectively.\n<%- endif %>" }, "p90p100share_pip_disposable_percapita": { "title": "Income share of the richest 10% (World Bank PIP) for the year <> (<> comparison) - <>", "origins": [ { "producer": "World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform", "title": "World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)", "description": "The Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) is an interactive computational tool that offers users quick access to the World Bank\u2019s estimates of poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity. PIP provides a comprehensive view of global, regional, and country-level trends for over 170 economies around the world.", "citation_full": "World Bank (2026). Poverty and Inequality Platform (version 20260922_2021 and 20260922_2017) [Data set]. World Bank Group. https://pip.worldbank.org/.", "version_producer": "20260922_2021, 20260922_2017", "url_main": "https://pip.worldbank.org", "date_accessed": "2026-09-22", "date_published": "2026-09-22", "license": { "name": "CC0", "url": "https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0063646" } } ], "unit": "%", "short_unit": "%", "display": { "name": "Income share of the richest 10% around <>" }, "processing_level": "major", "presentation": { "topic_tags": [ "Economic Inequality" ] }, "description_processing": "<% if only_all_series == \"All data points\" %>\nWe obtained the series for each indicator by extracting the closest observations to <>, respectively. The maximum distance between the year available and the year of reference is 5 years.\n\nWe have also included some exclusions for the years we could extract. We excluded the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to avoid capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We also excluded years before 1990 to avoid capturing data for countries in socialist regimes.\n\nAdditionally, for the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform dataset, we rank multiple matchings following this order of preference:\n 1. The same welfare concept (first income, then consumption).\n 2. The same reporting level (first national, then urban, then rural, then different).\n<%- elif only_all_series == \"Only countries in all sources\" %>\nWe obtained the series for each indicator by extracting the closest observations to <>, respectively. The maximum distance between the year available and the year of reference is 5 years.\n\nWe have also included some exclusions for the years we could extract. We excluded the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to avoid capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We also excluded years before 1990 to avoid capturing data for countries in socialist regimes.\n\nAdditionally, for the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform dataset, we rank multiple matchings following this order of preference:\n 1. The same welfare concept (first income, then consumption).\n 2. The same reporting level (first national, then urban, then rural, then different).\n\nFinally, this dataset includes only the countries that are available in both the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform and the World Inequality Database. We applied this restriction so we can compare the results across these two sources more effectively.\n<%- endif %>" }, "p90p100share_wid_pretaxnational_peradult": { "title": "Income share of the richest 10% (WID) for the year <> (<> comparison) - <> (pre-tax)", "origins": [ { "producer": "World Inequality Database (WID.world)", "title": "World Inequality Database (WID)", "description": "The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.", "title_snapshot": "World Inequality Database (WID) \u2013 Key indicators", "citation_full": "World Inequality Database (WID), https://wid.world", "attribution_short": "WID", "url_main": "https://wid.world", "date_accessed": "2026-07-07", "date_published": "2026", "license": { "name": "CC BY 4.0", "url": "https://wid.world/" } }, { "producer": "World Inequality Database (WID.world)", "title": "World Inequality Database (WID)", "description": "The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.", "title_snapshot": "World Inequality Database (WID) \u2013 Key indicators (with extrapolations)", "citation_full": "World Inequality Database (WID), https://wid.world", "attribution_short": "WID", "url_main": "https://wid.world", "date_accessed": "2026-07-07", "date_published": "2026", "license": { "name": "CC BY 4.0", "url": "https://wid.world/" } } ], "unit": "%", "short_unit": "%", "display": { "name": "Income share of the richest 10% around <>" }, "processing_level": "major", "presentation": { "topic_tags": [ "Economic Inequality" ] }, "description_processing": "<% if only_all_series == \"All data points\" %>\nWe obtained the series for each indicator by extracting the closest observations to <>, respectively. The maximum distance between the year available and the year of reference is 5 years.\n\nWe have also included some exclusions for the years we could extract. We excluded the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to avoid capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We also excluded years before 1990 to avoid capturing data for countries in socialist regimes.\n\nAdditionally, for the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform dataset, we rank multiple matchings following this order of preference:\n 1. The same welfare concept (first income, then consumption).\n 2. The same reporting level (first national, then urban, then rural, then different).\n<%- elif only_all_series == \"Only countries in all sources\" %>\nWe obtained the series for each indicator by extracting the closest observations to <>, respectively. The maximum distance between the year available and the year of reference is 5 years.\n\nWe have also included some exclusions for the years we could extract. We excluded the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to avoid capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We also excluded years before 1990 to avoid capturing data for countries in socialist regimes.\n\nAdditionally, for the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform dataset, we rank multiple matchings following this order of preference:\n 1. The same welfare concept (first income, then consumption).\n 2. The same reporting level (first national, then urban, then rural, then different).\n\nFinally, this dataset includes only the countries that are available in both the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform and the World Inequality Database. We applied this restriction so we can compare the results across these two sources more effectively.\n<%- endif %>" }, "p99p100share_wid_pretaxnational_peradult": { "title": "Income share of the richest 1% (WID) for the year <> (<> comparison) - <> (pre-tax)", "origins": [ { "producer": "World Inequality Database (WID.world)", "title": "World Inequality Database (WID)", "description": "The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.", "title_snapshot": "World Inequality Database (WID) \u2013 Key indicators", "citation_full": "World Inequality Database (WID), https://wid.world", "attribution_short": "WID", "url_main": "https://wid.world", "date_accessed": "2026-07-07", "date_published": "2026", "license": { "name": "CC BY 4.0", "url": "https://wid.world/" } }, { "producer": "World Inequality Database (WID.world)", "title": "World Inequality Database (WID)", "description": "The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.", "title_snapshot": "World Inequality Database (WID) \u2013 Key indicators (with extrapolations)", "citation_full": "World Inequality Database (WID), https://wid.world", "attribution_short": "WID", "url_main": "https://wid.world", "date_accessed": "2026-07-07", "date_published": "2026", "license": { "name": "CC BY 4.0", "url": "https://wid.world/" } } ], "unit": "%", "short_unit": "%", "display": { "name": "Income share of the richest 1% around <>" }, "processing_level": "major", "presentation": { "topic_tags": [ "Economic Inequality" ] }, "description_processing": "<% if only_all_series == \"All data points\" %>\nWe obtained the series for each indicator by extracting the closest observations to <>, respectively. The maximum distance between the year available and the year of reference is 5 years.\n\nWe have also included some exclusions for the years we could extract. We excluded the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to avoid capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We also excluded years before 1990 to avoid capturing data for countries in socialist regimes.\n\nAdditionally, for the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform dataset, we rank multiple matchings following this order of preference:\n 1. The same welfare concept (first income, then consumption).\n 2. The same reporting level (first national, then urban, then rural, then different).\n<%- elif only_all_series == \"Only countries in all sources\" %>\nWe obtained the series for each indicator by extracting the closest observations to <>, respectively. The maximum distance between the year available and the year of reference is 5 years.\n\nWe have also included some exclusions for the years we could extract. We excluded the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to avoid capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We also excluded years before 1990 to avoid capturing data for countries in socialist regimes.\n\nAdditionally, for the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform dataset, we rank multiple matchings following this order of preference:\n 1. The same welfare concept (first income, then consumption).\n 2. The same reporting level (first national, then urban, then rural, then different).\n\nFinally, this dataset includes only the countries that are available in both the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform and the World Inequality Database. We applied this restriction so we can compare the results across these two sources more effectively.\n<%- endif %>" }, "palmaratio_pip_disposable_percapita": { "title": "Palma ratio (World Bank PIP) for the year <> (<> comparison) - <>", "origins": [ { "producer": "World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform", "title": "World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)", "description": "The Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) is an interactive computational tool that offers users quick access to the World Bank\u2019s estimates of poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity. PIP provides a comprehensive view of global, regional, and country-level trends for over 170 economies around the world.", "citation_full": "World Bank (2026). Poverty and Inequality Platform (version 20260922_2021 and 20260922_2017) [Data set]. World Bank Group. https://pip.worldbank.org/.", "version_producer": "20260922_2021, 20260922_2017", "url_main": "https://pip.worldbank.org", "date_accessed": "2026-09-22", "date_published": "2026-09-22", "license": { "name": "CC0", "url": "https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0063646" } } ], "unit": "", "short_unit": "", "display": { "name": "Palma ratio around <>" }, "processing_level": "major", "presentation": { "topic_tags": [ "Economic Inequality" ] }, "description_processing": "<% if only_all_series == \"All data points\" %>\nWe obtained the series for each indicator by extracting the closest observations to <>, respectively. The maximum distance between the year available and the year of reference is 5 years.\n\nWe have also included some exclusions for the years we could extract. We excluded the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to avoid capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We also excluded years before 1990 to avoid capturing data for countries in socialist regimes.\n\nAdditionally, for the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform dataset, we rank multiple matchings following this order of preference:\n 1. The same welfare concept (first income, then consumption).\n 2. The same reporting level (first national, then urban, then rural, then different).\n<%- elif only_all_series == \"Only countries in all sources\" %>\nWe obtained the series for each indicator by extracting the closest observations to <>, respectively. The maximum distance between the year available and the year of reference is 5 years.\n\nWe have also included some exclusions for the years we could extract. We excluded the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to avoid capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We also excluded years before 1990 to avoid capturing data for countries in socialist regimes.\n\nAdditionally, for the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform dataset, we rank multiple matchings following this order of preference:\n 1. The same welfare concept (first income, then consumption).\n 2. The same reporting level (first national, then urban, then rural, then different).\n\nFinally, this dataset includes only the countries that are available in both the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform and the World Inequality Database. We applied this restriction so we can compare the results across these two sources more effectively.\n<%- endif %>" }, "palmaratio_wid_pretaxnational_peradult": { "title": "Palma ratio (WID) for the year <> (<> comparison) - <> (pre-tax)", "origins": [ { "producer": "World Inequality Database (WID.world)", "title": "World Inequality Database (WID)", "description": "The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.", "title_snapshot": "World Inequality Database (WID) \u2013 Key indicators", "citation_full": "World Inequality Database (WID), https://wid.world", "attribution_short": "WID", "url_main": "https://wid.world", "date_accessed": "2026-07-07", "date_published": "2026", "license": { "name": "CC BY 4.0", "url": "https://wid.world/" } }, { "producer": "World Inequality Database (WID.world)", "title": "World Inequality Database (WID)", "description": "The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.", "title_snapshot": "World Inequality Database (WID) \u2013 Key indicators (with extrapolations)", "citation_full": "World Inequality Database (WID), https://wid.world", "attribution_short": "WID", "url_main": "https://wid.world", "date_accessed": "2026-07-07", "date_published": "2026", "license": { "name": "CC BY 4.0", "url": "https://wid.world/" } } ], "unit": "", "short_unit": "", "display": { "name": "Palma ratio around <>" }, "processing_level": "major", "presentation": { "topic_tags": [ "Economic Inequality" ] }, "description_processing": "<% if only_all_series == \"All data points\" %>\nWe obtained the series for each indicator by extracting the closest observations to <>, respectively. The maximum distance between the year available and the year of reference is 5 years.\n\nWe have also included some exclusions for the years we could extract. We excluded the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to avoid capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We also excluded years before 1990 to avoid capturing data for countries in socialist regimes.\n\nAdditionally, for the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform dataset, we rank multiple matchings following this order of preference:\n 1. The same welfare concept (first income, then consumption).\n 2. The same reporting level (first national, then urban, then rural, then different).\n<%- elif only_all_series == \"Only countries in all sources\" %>\nWe obtained the series for each indicator by extracting the closest observations to <>, respectively. The maximum distance between the year available and the year of reference is 5 years.\n\nWe have also included some exclusions for the years we could extract. We excluded the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to avoid capturing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We also excluded years before 1990 to avoid capturing data for countries in socialist regimes.\n\nAdditionally, for the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform dataset, we rank multiple matchings following this order of preference:\n 1. The same welfare concept (first income, then consumption).\n 2. The same reporting level (first national, then urban, then rural, then different).\n\nFinally, this dataset includes only the countries that are available in both the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform and the World Inequality Database. We applied this restriction so we can compare the results across these two sources more effectively.\n<%- endif %>" } } }