C. Country Rankings & Economic Indicators
C.1 Country-by-Country Poverty Rankings
“Country Profiles” — Poverty and Inequality Platform (World Bank) — pip.worldbank.org/country-profiles
“Poverty Data Explorer” — Our World in Data, interactive cross-country comparison tool — ourworldindata.org/explorers/poverty-explorer
“Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP)” — World Bank Open Data indicator series — data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.DDAY
“Human Development Index and its components” (2025 Statistical Annex) — UNDP Human Development Report Office — hdr.undp.org
“Poverty Calculator” — Poverty and Inequality Platform (World Bank) — pip.worldbank.org/poverty-calculator
C.2 National Poverty Line Analyses
“How is the international poverty line derived? How is it different from national poverty lines?” — World Bank Data Help Desk — datahelpdesk.worldbank.org
“Estimating International Poverty Lines from Comparable National Thresholds” (Policy Research Working Paper 7606) — Jolliffe & Prydz, World Bank — documents1.worldbank.org
“Societal Poverty: A Relative and Relevant Measure” (WPS8073) — Jolliffe & Prydz, World Bank — documents1.worldbank.org
“History of the Poverty Measure” — U.S. Census Bureau — census.gov
“Poverty in the United States: 2024” (Report P60-287) — U.S. Census Bureau — census.gov
“National poverty line vs. GDP per capita” — Our World in Data — ourworldindata.org
C.3 Inflation & Purchasing Power
“What are PPPs and international dollars?” — Our World in Data — ourworldindata.org/what-are-ppps
“International Comparison Program (ICP) — Methodology” — World Bank — worldbank.org
“Purchasing power parities (PPPs): a new overview of available datasets and their differences” — World Bank Data Blog — blogs.worldbank.org
“Inflation could wreak havoc on the world’s poor” — World Bank Blogs — blogs.worldbank.org
“How do revised 2011 PPPs and new 2017 PPPs affect the World Bank’s global poverty estimates?” — World Bank Data Blog — blogs.worldbank.org
“The World Bank’s New Global Poverty Line” — Center for Global Development — cgdev.org