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Target: Eradicate extreme poverty

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Headline data

Proportion of the population living below the international poverty line
Year Value Units
2008 0.1 %
2012 0.1 %
2014 0.2 %
2016 0.1 %
2018 0.3 %
2020 0.1 %
2022 0.2 %

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Footnote:

Methodological sheet of the indicator available for the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country.

Available indicator

Proportion of the population living below the international poverty line
Target

1.1 By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
Goal

1- End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Definition

Proportion of people whose net equivalent income, after social transfers, is below the international poverty line of USD2.15 in purchasing power parity (PPP) of 2017.
Theoretical formula \[PP_{IPL}^{t} = \frac{P_{IPL}^{t}}{P^{t}} \cdot 100\]

where:

$P_{IPL}^{t} =$ population with net equivalent income below the international poverty line, in year $t$

$P^{t} =$ total population in year $t$
Frequency

Biennial
Observations

To account for the impact of differences in household size and composition, a household’s disposable income is divided by the number of household members converted to adult equivalents (units of consumption). The number of consumption units in a household is calculated using the modified OECD scale, which assigns a weight of 1 to the first person aged 14 or over, a weight of 0.5 for other people aged 14 or over and a weight of 0.3 for people under 14 years of age.
Data last updated 2025/05/08
Metadata last updated 2025/06/18

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Rationale

Poverty lines vary according to the purchasing power of countries and have a strong economic gradient, so that the richest countries tend to adopt higher standards of living to define poverty.

However, to consistently measure global absolute poverty in terms of consumption, it is necessary to treat two people with the same purchasing power over basic goods in the same way —both are poor or not poor— even if they live in different countries.

Since the 1990 World Development Report, the World Bank has proposed to apply a common standard to measure extreme poverty, based on on what poverty means in the poorest countries of the world. The well-being of people living in different countries can be measured in a common scale adjusting for differences in the purchasing power of the currencies.

The commonly used standard of USD1 a day, measured at 1985 prices and adjusted to the local currency using rates of purchasing power parity (PPP), was chosen for the World Development Report of 1990 because it was typical of the poverty lines in low-income countries at the time. Bespoke that differences in the cost of living are evolving worldwide, the International Poverty Line must be updated regularly using new PPP price data to reflect these changes. The last change occurred in September 2022, when the World Bank adopted USD2.15 as international poverty line using the 2017 PPP.

Source: United Nations Statistics Division
Comparability between the available indicator and the UN indicator

The available indicator does not comply with the metadata of the United Nations indicator, but provides similar information.
International results

Proportion of population below the international poverty line (%) SI_POV_DAY1 UNSTATS

World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform

Link to UN metadata

Metadata 1-1-1 (1).pdf

Metadata 1-1-1 (2).pdf
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