World Bank region name
Three-letter World Bank abbreviation of world regions
World Bank country name
Three-letter ISO (alpha-3) country code system for international stardardization
Reporting year
Reporting level
Survey acronym
Geographic coverage of the country survey (national, urban, rural)
Welfare time
Type of welfare vector used for estimates (income or consumption expenditure)
Series comparability code where zero(0) is oldest comparable series in each country. When comparability is broken, the value changes to one (1) and so on.
Comparability over time at country level
Minimum value representing the basic necessities an individual requires to live (per day).
Proportion (%) of the population that live in households where the consumption or income per person is below the poverty line.
Measures the "intensity" or "depth" of poverty, showing the average shortfall of the total population from the poverty line.
Averages the squares of the poverty gaps relative to the poverty line
A distribution-sensitive poverty measure computed by dividing the poverty line by income (or consumption), taking logs, and taking the sum over the poor.
The average monthly household per capita income or consumption expenditure from the survey in 2011 PPP
The median of monthly household per capita income or consumption expenditure from the survey in 2011 PPP
Index of inequality, given by the mean across the population of the log of the overall mean divided by individual income
Measure of inequality between 0 (everyone has the same income) and 100 (richest person has all the income)
Also known as the Wolfson polarization index, it measures the extent to which the distribution of welfare is "spread out".  It ranges from 0 (no polarization) to 1 (complete polarization).
Income or Consumption share held by lowest/1st decile (%)
Income or Consumption share held by the second/2nd decile (%)
Income or Consumption share held by the third/3rd decile (%)
Income or Consumption share held by the fourth decile (%)
Income or Consumption share held by the fifth/5th decile (%)
Income or Consumption share held by the 6th decile (%)
Income or Consumption share held by the 7th decile (%)
Income or Consumption share held by the 8th decile (%)
Income or Consumption share held by the 9th decile (%)
Income or Consumption share held by the highest/10th decile (%)
Average monthly household per capita income or consumption expenditure from the survey in Local Currency Units
Average monthly household per capita income or consumption expenditure from the survey in $ 2011 PPP
Interpolated mean welfare to reporting year
Consumer Price Index
Geographical level of the Consumer Price Index (national, urban, rural)
Purchasing Power Parity (International Comparison Program - ICP 2011)
Geographical level of the Purchasing Power Parity (national, urban, rural)
Total population
Geographical level of the reported population (national, urban, rural)
Gross Domestic Product
Geographical level of the Gross Domestic Product (national, urban, rural)
Household Final Consumption Expenditure
Geographical level of the HFCE (national, urban, rural)
TRUE if the data point has been filled
1 if datapoint is used for global and regional aggregations
Underlying distribution of welfare (aggretate, grouped, imputed, or micro data)
Estimation type used to fill gaps for years wo/ survey estimates (extrapolated, interpolated, survey)