Incomes across the Distribution

Indicators and statistics

Poverty Longitudinal/panel data | Time series National level since 1970 | 1980 | 1981+ 32 Austria | Belgium | The Czech Republic+ 7
How widely are the benefits of economic growth shared in advanced societies? Do the rich capture the gains of growth, with little or no improvement in the living standards of the middle? Is growth raising the incomes of the poor so that they keep pace with the middle, or is the g...

CLOSER Contextual Database

Indicators and statistics

Poverty | Living conditions Time series | Quantitative data National level 1980 | 1981 | 1982+ 37 United Kingdom
The CLOSER Contextual Database provides time series data on some key indicators of social change to facilitate and promote cross-cohort research. In addition to the quantitative indicators, the Database provides information on the institutional context through key dates related t...

WDI: Poverty and Inequality

Indicators and statistics

Working conditions | Vulnerability | Poverty Tabular data | Quantitative data | Time series National level since 1970 | 1980 | 1981+ 38 EU28 | Other | Austria+ 31
National governments and their development partners are all working to reduce poverty. Although it is often thought of as a lack of material resources, poverty is correlated closely with all aspects of a person’s life: the world’s poor are more likely to be malnourished, they hav...

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