Catalog / World Bank — Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) / Poverty and Equity Database

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World Bank — Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) / Poverty and Equity Database

Name: World Bank — Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) / Poverty and Equity Database
Creator: World Bank
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Open · redistributedCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)Development IndicatorsInequality & Poverty

Source: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform (CC BY 4.0)

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

32,490

Temporal coverage

1963-12-31 – 2025-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Required attribution: Source: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform (CC BY 4.0)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://pip.worldbank.org/
Provider terms: https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0038020/poverty-and-equity-database-poverty-and-inequality-platform

How to cite

World Bank — Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) / Poverty and Equity Database. Retrieved from https://pip.worldbank.org/. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Processing: Retrieved from the official source, normalized to a long {series_key, obs_date, value} schema (period-start dates), de-duplicated, and stored as zstd Parquet. Compiled and redistributed by the Elkassabgi Data Library.

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download pip series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/pip
Update cadence: irregular
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: single file data/clean_full/pip/pip.parquet, columns series_key/obs_date/value, series_key='PIP:<indicator>:<country_code>:<povline_label>' (annual, Dec-31). Streaming ParquetWriter. Plus two log/err text files.

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets