Global Poverty Data Sets Downloads

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Global Poverty Data Sets Downloads

The global data sets include two proxy poverty measurements: Infant Mortality Rates and Malnutrition (underweight children), all translated to a common quarter-degree grid. A quarter-degree grid cell is approximately 770 square kilometers (300 square miles) at the equator, and progressively less at higher latitudes. The global data sets include metadata files and data sets in the following formats:

Spatial data sets: available as a global shapefile for each variable.
Tabular data sets: available in MS Excel (xls) and Comma-Separated Value (csv).
Metadata: included as read_me text or Excel files on each data set.

Infant Mortality Rates

[deaths : live births]
[Metadata]

Download Shapefile

Shapefile of infant mortality rate

Download Grid

¼ degree grid of infant mortality rate
¼ degree grid of births [denominator]
¼ degree grid of deaths [numerator]
2.5 minute grid of infant mortality rate
2.5 minute grid of births [denominator]
2.5 minute grid of deaths [numerator]

Download Data Table

Microsoft Excel and Comma-Separated Value tables of infant mortality rate at two resolutions:

Highest resolution that can be matched spatially (same resolution as shapefile)
Highest resolution available in tabular format (sometimes higher than could be matched spatially)

Prevalence of Child Malnutrition

[underweight children under 5 : total children under 5 ]
[Metadata]

Download Shapefile

Shapefile of the proportion of underweight children under 5 years old

Download Grid

¼ degree grid of the proportion of underweight children under 5
¼ degree grid of total children under 5 [denominator]
¼ degree grid of underweight children under 5 [numerator]
2.5 minute grid of the proportion of underweight children under 5
2.5 minute grid of total children under 5 [denominator]
2.5 minute grid of underweight children under 5 [numerator]

Download Data Table

Microsoft Excel and Comma-Separated Value tables of the proportion of underweight children under 5 at one resolution:

Highest resolution that can be matched spatially (same resolution as shapefile)

Ancillary Grid Data

[Country, population, land area, latitude, longitude, and sequence id number for each quarter-degree grid cell]

Download Shapefile

quarter-degree grid-cell only
over 800,000 cases

Download Grid

all variables at quarter-degree
country grid at 2.5 minute resolution also enclosed

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