Poverty gap at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP) (%)

Definition

Mean shortfall in income or consumption from the $1.90 poverty line, as a share of the poverty line.

Plain English

The poverty gap measures not just how many people are poor, but how far below the poverty line they fall. A larger gap means the poor are much worse off than the threshold, not just slightly below it.

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