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We also estimate the share and number of people able to meet basic needs.\n\n", "type": "int", "dataChecksum": "20150af15b6087fe7c9add1c005f639c", "metadataChecksum": "628dc83b5f4c556116e29e940ceb004b", "datasetName": "Global extreme poverty - Present and past since 1820", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2023-10-09", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Cost of Basic Needs - Number in poverty (Estimated)", "numDecimalPlaces": 0, "entityAnnotationsMap": "Western offshoots (Moatsos): United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand"}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"titlePublic": "Number of people living in extreme poverty", "titleVariant": "Long-run estimates - Cost of basic needs", "topicTagsLinks": [], "faqs": []}, "descriptionKey": ["\nThe \u2018cost of basic needs\u2019 approach was recommended by the World Bank Commission on Global Poverty, headed by Tony Atkinson, as a complementary method in measuring poverty.\n", "\nMoatsos describes the methodology as follows: \u201cIn 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 operationalize 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\u2019 poverty estimates on a global scale to account for countries that lack some of the relevant data.\u201d\n"], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1820}, {"id": 1821}, {"id": 1822}, {"id": 1823}, {"id": 1824}, {"id": 1825}, {"id": 1826}, {"id": 1827}, {"id": 1828}, {"id": 1829}, {"id": 1830}, {"id": 1831}, {"id": 1832}, {"id": 1833}, {"id": 1834}, {"id": 1835}, {"id": 1836}, {"id": 1837}, {"id": 1838}, {"id": 1839}, {"id": 1840}, {"id": 1841}, {"id": 1842}, {"id": 1843}, {"id": 1844}, {"id": 1845}, {"id": 1846}, {"id": 1847}, {"id": 1848}, {"id": 1849}, {"id": 1850}, {"id": 1851}, {"id": 1852}, {"id": 1853}, {"id": 1854}, {"id": 1855}, {"id": 1856}, {"id": 1857}, {"id": 1858}, {"id": 1859}, {"id": 1860}, {"id": 1861}, {"id": 1862}, {"id": 1863}, {"id": 1864}, {"id": 1865}, {"id": 1866}, {"id": 1867}, {"id": 1868}, {"id": 1869}, {"id": 1870}, {"id": 1871}, {"id": 1872}, {"id": 1873}, {"id": 1874}, {"id": 1875}, {"id": 1876}, {"id": 1877}, {"id": 1878}, {"id": 1879}, {"id": 1880}, {"id": 1881}, {"id": 1882}, {"id": 1883}, {"id": 1884}, {"id": 1885}, {"id": 1886}, {"id": 1887}, {"id": 1888}, {"id": 1889}, {"id": 1890}, {"id": 1891}, {"id": 1892}, {"id": 1893}, {"id": 1894}, {"id": 1895}, {"id": 1896}, {"id": 1897}, {"id": 1898}, {"id": 1899}, {"id": 1900}, {"id": 1901}, {"id": 1902}, {"id": 1903}, {"id": 1904}, {"id": 1905}, {"id": 1906}, {"id": 1907}, {"id": 1908}, {"id": 1909}, {"id": 1910}, {"id": 1911}, {"id": 1912}, {"id": 1913}, {"id": 1914}, {"id": 1915}, {"id": 1916}, {"id": 1917}, {"id": 1918}, {"id": 1919}, {"id": 1920}, {"id": 1921}, {"id": 1922}, {"id": 1923}, {"id": 1924}, {"id": 1925}, {"id": 1926}, {"id": 1927}, {"id": 1928}, {"id": 1929}, {"id": 1930}, {"id": 1931}, {"id": 1932}, {"id": 1933}, {"id": 1934}, {"id": 1935}, {"id": 1936}, {"id": 1937}, {"id": 1938}, {"id": 1939}, {"id": 1940}, {"id": 1941}, {"id": 1942}, {"id": 1943}, {"id": 1944}, {"id": 1945}, {"id": 1946}, {"id": 1947}, {"id": 1948}, {"id": 1949}, {"id": 1950}, {"id": 1951}, {"id": 1952}, {"id": 1953}, {"id": 1954}, {"id": 1955}, {"id": 1956}, {"id": 1957}, {"id": 1958}, {"id": 1959}, {"id": 1960}, {"id": 1961}, {"id": 1962}, {"id": 1963}, {"id": 1964}, {"id": 1965}, {"id": 1966}, {"id": 1967}, {"id": 1968}, {"id": 1969}, {"id": 1970}, {"id": 1971}, {"id": 1972}, {"id": 1973}, {"id": 1974}, {"id": 1975}, {"id": 1976}, {"id": 1977}, {"id": 1978}, {"id": 1979}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1984}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1988}, {"id": 1989}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 368713, "name": "East Asia (Moatsos)", "code": null}, {"id": 368706, "name": "Eastern Europe and former USSR (Moatsos)", "code": null}, {"id": 368712, "name": "Latin America and Caribbean (Moatsos)", "code": null}, {"id": 368707, "name": "Middle East and North Africa (Moatsos)", "code": null}, {"id": 368709, "name": "South and South-East Asia (Moatsos)", "code": null}, {"id": 368711, "name": "Sub-Saharan Africa (Moatsos)", "code": null}, {"id": 368708, "name": "Western Europe (Moatsos)", "code": null}, {"id": 368710, "name": "Western offshoots (Moatsos)", "code": null}, {"id": 355, "name": "World", "code": "OWID_WRL"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 334, "titleSnapshot": "Global extreme poverty - Present and past since 1820. Number in poverty for regions (cost of basic needs approach)", "title": "Global extreme poverty - Present and past since 1820", "description": "This dataset includes the share in extreme poverty, estimated by Michalis Moatsos based on the 'cost of basic needs' approach.\n\nThe \u2018cost of basic needs\u2019 approach was recommended by the World Bank Commission on Global Poverty, headed by Tony Atkinson, as a complementary method in measuring poverty.\n\nTony Atkinson \u2013and, after his death, his colleagues\u2013 turned this report into a book that was published as [Measuring Poverty around the World](https://www.tony-atkinson.com/book-measuring-poverty-around-the-world/).\n\nThe work by Moatsos is based on what was suggested by Allen in Robert Allen (2017) \u2013 Absolute poverty: When necessity displaces desire. In American Economic Review, Vol. 107/12, pp. 3690-3721, https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20161080\n\nMoatsos describes the methodology as follows: \u201cIn 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 operationalize 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\u2019 poverty estimates on a global scale to account for countries that lack some of the relevant data.\u201d In his publication you find much more detail on all of the shown poverty data.", "producer": "Michalis Moatsos", "citationFull": "Moatsos, M. (2021) Global extreme poverty: Present and past since 1820. Published in OECD (2021), How Was Life? Volume II: New Perspectives on Well-being and Global Inequality since 1820, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/3d96efc5-en.", "urlMain": "https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/e20f2f1a-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/e20f2f1a-en", "urlDownload": "https://stat.link/98otxe", "dateAccessed": "2023-10-09", "datePublished": "2021-03-25", "license": {"url": "https://www.oecd.org/termsandconditions/", "name": "OECD Terms and Conditions"}}]}