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World regions according to World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform

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PovertyEconomic InequalityEconomic Growth

What you should know about this indicator

  • The regions employed by the World Bank PIP differ from the regional groupings used by the World Bank in other contexts.
  • Some economies, mostly high-income economies, are excluded from the geographical regions and are included as a separate group referred to as “other high income” (or “industrialized economies” or “rest of the world” in earlier publications).
World regions according to World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform
World Bank
Regions of the world as defined by the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP).
Source
World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
October 7, 2024
Next expected update
April 2025
Date range
2024–2024

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Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

This is a dataset of the complete set of regions and their countries as defined by the World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP). This is extracted separately from the main dataset using the country_list module in the auxiliary tables available at the API.

Retrieved on
October 7, 2024
Retrieved from
https://pip.worldbank.org
Citation
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World Bank (2024). Poverty and Inequality Platform (version 20240627_2017 and 20240627_2011) [Data set]. World Bank Group. https://pip.worldbank.org/.

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“Data Page: World regions according to World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform”, part of the following publication: Joe Hasell, Max Roser, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Pablo Arriagada (2022) - “Poverty”. Data adapted from World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-regions-according-to-world-bank-pip [online resource]
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World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data

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World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “World regions according to World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform – World Bank” [dataset]. World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform, “World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP): Regional definitions 20240627_2017, 20240627_2011” [original data]. Retrieved December 12, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-regions-according-to-world-bank-pip