Spatial Inequalities

Over the recent years, the World Bank harmonized household surveys from different sources to help end-users to perform the computation of SDGs indicators and monitor progress towards achieving set goals in terms of poverty (SDG1) and inequality reduction (SDG10). The resulting Global Monitoring Database (GMD) allowed us to compute well-being indicators from surveys conducted in 103 countries across 5 continents since 2000 (pre-COVID 19). These include 51.5 million individuals from all income groups and cover all regions of the world. Various spatial inequality measures were computed from the harmonized welfare aggregates, used to compute poverty rates at international $US PPP levels and spatially deflated to account for available price differences between sub-national regions.