UNDP promotes inclusive and sustainable human development and works to reduce poverty in all its dimensions. We focus our efforts on making growth and trade benefit everyone in developing countries.

United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) World Income Inequality Database (WIID) collects and stores information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries. Contents include an update of the Deininger & Squire database from the World Bank, and estimates from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS).

Official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

Find MDG Indicator data by country or region.

World Bank data which complements the UN MDG data.

The World Bank's poverty reduction projects and programs span all sectors and areas of their work. They are supported by thorough analysis to make sure Bank lending operations benefit the poor and vulnerable in the countries they serve.
An online library of reports (including statistical data) on poverty and income inequality. Available data includes poverty and inequality measures generated from analytical reports, from national poverty monitoring programs, and from the World Bank’s Development Research Group. Social indicators included in data measurements include population, GNP per capita, income distribution, and expenditures on social programs. Use the quick links below:

Access regional and country dashboards displaying tables and graphs with the latest data and trends in poverty and inequality. Includes data visualization tools that track the evolution of poverty over time.

Latest poverty and inequality indicators compiled from officially recognized international sources. Poverty indicators include the poverty headcount ratio, poverty gap, and number of poor at both international and national poverty lines. Inequality indicators include the GINI Index and income or consumption distributions. The database includes national, regional and global estimates. This database is maintained by the Global Poverty Working Group (GPWG), a team of poverty measurement experts from the Poverty Reduction and Equity Network, the Development Research Group, and the Development Data Group.

This database provides access to impact evaluations of World Bank-supported interventions and impact evaluations undertaken by World Bank staff over the past few years, as well as others from a variety of other academic and development institutions. It includes impact evaluations (ex-ante and ex-post), where an intervention outcome is assessed against an explicit counterfactual. No other criteria were used. The database does not discriminate on the basis of quality. Hence, inclusion in the database does not imply World Bank endorsement of the methodology or findings.

Includes 331 indicators from the World Development Indicators (WDI) covering 209 countries from 1960 to 2008 translated into Spanish, French and Arabic.

Databank is an analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them.

A searchable archive of the World Bank World Development Report from 1978 to the present.