variables: 525240

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525240 ‘cost of basic needs’ approach - number above poverty line   Number of people that was able to meet basic needs (including minimal nutrition and adequately heated shelter) according to prices of locally-available goods and services at the time. Moatsos describes the methodology as follows: “In this approach, poverty lines are calculated for every year and country separately, rather than using a single global line. The second step is to gather the necessary data to operationalise this approach, alongside imputation methods in cases where not all the necessary data are available. The third step is to devise a method for aggregating countries’ poverty estimates on a global scale to account for countries that lack some of the relevant data.” In his publication – linked above – you find much more detail on all of the shown poverty data. The sharp increase in the number of people in poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa in 1950 is due the inclusion of several countries only from that year onward. 2022-09-08 23:32:38 2023-06-15 05:05:42       5756 27023   
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