Global Estimate of Children in Monetary Poverty : An Update

This note builds on previous collaboration between the World Bank Group and UNICEF to estimate the global extent of child poverty. We estimate that in 2017, 17.5 percent of children in the world (or 356 million) younger than 18 years lived on less...

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Main Authors:	Silwal, Ani Rudra, Engilbertsdottir, Solrun, Cuesta, Jose, Newhouse, David, Stewart, David
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	POVERTY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS EXTREME POVERTY CHILDREN IN POVERTY CHILD POVERTY SDG 1.1
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/966791603123453576/Global-Estimate-of-Children-in-Monetary-Poverty-An-Update http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34704

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spelling	okr-10986-347042021-05-25T09:58:57Z Global Estimate of Children in Monetary Poverty : An Update Silwal, Ani Rudra Engilbertsdottir, Solrun Cuesta, Jose Newhouse, David Stewart, David POVERTY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS EXTREME POVERTY CHILDREN IN POVERTY CHILD POVERTY SDG 1.1 This note builds on previous collaboration between the World Bank Group and UNICEF to estimate the global extent of child poverty. We estimate that in 2017, 17.5 percent of children in the world (or 356 million) younger than 18 years lived on less than 1.90 Dollars PPP per day, as opposed to 7.9 percent of adults ages 18 and above. The poverty rate of children at the 3.20 Dollars and 5.50 Dollars lines were 41.5 and 66.7 percent, respectively. The number of children living in extreme poverty declined by approximately 29 million between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for two thirds of extremely poor children, and South Asia another 18 percent. These estimates are based on the Global Monitoring Database (GMD) of household surveys compiled in Spring 2020 and consists of surveys from 149 countries that are also used for the official World Bank poverty estimates. Because the estimates pertain to 2017, they do not consider the adverse economic impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. 2020-10-30T15:15:14Z 2020-10-30T15:15:14Z 2020-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/966791603123453576/Global-Estimate-of-Children-in-Monetary-Poverty-An-Update http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34704 English Poverty and Equity Discussion Paper; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper
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spellingShingle	POVERTY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS EXTREME POVERTY CHILDREN IN POVERTY CHILD POVERTY SDG 1.1 Silwal, Ani Rudra Engilbertsdottir, Solrun Cuesta, Jose Newhouse, David Stewart, David Global Estimate of Children in Monetary Poverty : An Update
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description	This note builds on previous collaboration between the World Bank Group and UNICEF to estimate the global extent of child poverty. We estimate that in 2017, 17.5 percent of children in the world (or 356 million) younger than 18 years lived on less than 1.90 Dollars PPP per day, as opposed to 7.9 percent of adults ages 18 and above. The poverty rate of children at the 3.20 Dollars and 5.50 Dollars lines were 41.5 and 66.7 percent, respectively. The number of children living in extreme poverty declined by approximately 29 million between 2013 and 2017. In 2017, Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for two thirds of extremely poor children, and South Asia another 18 percent. These estimates are based on the Global Monitoring Database (GMD) of household surveys compiled in Spring 2020 and consists of surveys from 149 countries that are also used for the official World Bank poverty estimates. Because the estimates pertain to 2017, they do not consider the adverse economic impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.
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author	Silwal, Ani Rudra Engilbertsdottir, Solrun Cuesta, Jose Newhouse, David Stewart, David
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title	Global Estimate of Children in Monetary Poverty : An Update
title_short	Global Estimate of Children in Monetary Poverty : An Update
title_full	Global Estimate of Children in Monetary Poverty : An Update
title_fullStr	Global Estimate of Children in Monetary Poverty : An Update
title_full_unstemmed	Global Estimate of Children in Monetary Poverty : An Update
title_sort	global estimate of children in monetary poverty : an update
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
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