We Just Ran Twenty-Three Million Queries of the World Bank's Web Site

This study provides data from the World Bank's PovcalNet on the distribution of household income and consumption across populations for 942 country-years, organized in dta and csv files by region. Each distribution contains 10,000 data points, one for each 0.01 incremental increase in percent of people living in households at or below a given income or consumption level. In addition, a data set containing the estimated parameters of the Beta and General Quadratic Lorenz curves is provided. For reference, we also provide the Python scripts used to query the PovcalNet online tool and export data from the Mongo database used to store results of these queries, along with all do files used to clean and construct the final data sets and summary statistics.