March 2024 global poverty update from the World Bank: first estimates of global poverty until 2022 from survey data
Global poverty estimates were updated today on the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP). , more than 100 new surveys were added to the PIP database, bringing the total number of surveys to more than 2,300. With more recent survey data, this March 2024 PIP update is the first to report a global poverty number for 2020-2022, the period of the COVID-19 pandemic.