Poverty headcount ratio at $4.20 a day (% of population)

Name: Poverty headcount ratio at $4.20 a day (% of population)
Creator: World Bank
License: https://data.worldbank.org/terms-and-conditions
Keywords: poverty, inequality, world-bank

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Poverty headcount ratio at $4.20 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $4.20 a day at 2021 international prices (2021 PPP) — the international poverty line for lower-middle-income economies. The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from the Poverty and Inequality Platform, based on primary household survey data from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments (data for high-income economies are mostly from the Luxembourg Income Study database). As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions. The 8-country panel is covered 2000-2024, with observations only in household-survey years; values are null where no survey exists for that year and are never interpolated. Units: percent of population.

Source: World Bank
Rows: 208
Columns: 4
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Sep 23, 2026
Theme: poverty

Column	Type	Description
country_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code).
country_name	string	Country name as published by the World Bank API.
year	integer	Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date).
value	float	Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: % of population)

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country_code	country_name	year	value
CAN	Canada	2,000	0.4
CAN	Canada	2,001	0.4
CAN	Canada	2,002	0.4
CAN	Canada	2,003	0.4
CAN	Canada	2,004	0.4
CAN	Canada	2,005	0.5
CAN	Canada	2,006	0.4
CAN	Canada	2,007	0.3
CAN	Canada	2,008	0.4
CAN	Canada	2,009	0.3

Profiled Sep 23, 2026 from snapshot 20260923T231629Z-98ea3f2a203e

Measured

Completeness: 93%
Rows: 208
Columns: 4
Columns with gaps: 1

Rows per yearyear · 2000–2025 · 26 years

20002025

Column	Missing	Distinct	Range	Distribution
country_codevarchar	0%	7	—	CAN26 CHN26 DEU26
country_namevarchar	0%	9	—	Canada26 China26 France26
yearbigint	0%	27	2,000 → 2,025median 2,013
valuedouble	27.9%	37	0 → 74.5median 0.4	2 outside 1st–99th percentile

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import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/poverty_headcount_420_day").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

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World Bank. (2026). Poverty headcount ratio at $4.20 a day (% of population) [Data set, snapshot 20260923T231629Z-98ea3f2a203e, sha256 98ea3f2a203e]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-24, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/poverty_headcount_420_day?snapshot=20260923T231629Z-98ea3f2a203e

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@misc{dz_world_bank_poverty_headcount_420_day_98ea3f2a,
  title        = {{Poverty headcount ratio at \$4.20 a day (\% of population)}},
  author       = {{World Bank}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/poverty_headcount_420_day?snapshot=20260923T231629Z-98ea3f2a203e}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20260923T231629Z-98ea3f2a203e, sha256 98ea3f2a203e64926af1ece1a6cf7c1487c0390efc74991ec3c71ad73792d2bc; accessed 2026-09-24}
}

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