Variable: Proportion of people living below 50 percent of median income (%)

QoG Code: (wdi_belmedinc)


Dataset: World Development Indicators

Description:

The percentage of people in the population who live in households whose per capita income or consumption is below half of the median income or consumption per capita. The median is measured at 2011 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) using PovcalNet (http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet). For some countries, medians are not reported due to grouped and/or confidential data. The reference year is the year in which the underlying household survey data was collected. In cases for which the data collection period bridged two calendar years, the first year in which data were collected is reported.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-01-23
Last updated by source: 2023-01-22


Categories:

Public Economy Private Economy


Find this variable in:

OECD Cross-section - 2024 OECD Time-series - 2024 Standard Cross-section - 2024 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard cross-section: 108
Standard time-series: 163
OECD cross-section: 35
OECD time-series: 37


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