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85% of Africans live on less than $5.50 per day

In East Asia and Pacific, there have been drastic changes in the distribution of the population across different poverty lines between 1990 and 2015. As shown above, East Asia and Pacific has been…

R. Andres Castaneda Aguilar, Dean Mitchell Jolliffe, Tony Fujs, Christoph Lakner, Espen Beer Prydz|
Poverty

Accessing International Debt Statistics using the World Bank API

The World Bank recently released the latest version of International Debt Statistics (IDS). If you were connected to the IDS database through the World Bank Data API, you would already know that…

Parul Agarwal|
Debt

International Debt Statistics 2020: External Debt Stock of Low- and Middle-Income Countries Rose, but Pace of Increase Slowed

External debt stock of low- and middle-income countries rose 5.2% in 2018 to $7.8 trillion, a slower pace of accumulation than in 2017, according to the World Bank’s Internal Debt Statistics 2020…

Evis Rucaj|
Debt

September 2019 global poverty update from the World Bank

The September 2019 global poverty update published today includes revised survey data which lead to minor changes in the most recent global poverty estimates.

R. Andres Castaneda Aguilar, Tony Fujs, Christoph Lakner, Minh Cong Nguyen, Espen Beer Prydz|
Poverty

Despite remarkable progress, 15,000 children and 800 women still die every day mostly of preventable or treatable causes

This blog is based on new child and maternal mortality estimates released jointly today by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) and United Nations…

Emi Suzuki, Haruna Kashiwase|
Health