Global extreme poverty
Basic needs poverty line
This metric counts someone as poor if their income is below the cost of purchasing 2,100 calories per day, essential vitamins and minerals, 3m2 of housing, basic clothing, cooking fuel, and lighting. Note that income includes the imputed value of subsistence farming and other forms of non-monetary consumption.
Source: LSE Inequalities (2024), with underlying data from Allen, Annual Review of Economics (2020), Moatsos, OECD (2021), and
Sullivan et al, New Political Economy (2024).
See here for more information about how these datasets have been combined.