World Bank PIP — Shared Prosperity

Shared prosperity (SP) measures the extent to which economic growth is inclusive by focusing on household consumption or income growth among the poorest population rather than on total growth. It is defined as the annualized growth rate in the average consumption or income per capita of the poorest 40 percent (the bottom 40) of the population.

Context and data status

This app was originally created to reproduce views published on a World Bank Group page that is no longer available; an archived copy of that view has not been located. The visualizations below preserve the app’s embedded October 2022 data for 81 economies and should be treated as a historical snapshot, not the latest release.

Update — verified July 18, 2026: the Global Database of Shared Prosperity remains available in the World Bank’s current systems. Its public Data Catalog record provides latest-spell and latest-and-historical workbook downloads.^[1] Data360 publishes it as WB_SHP, with three indicators covering 123 economies from 2002–2022.^[2] The live API still contains records from this snapshot: for example, China’s 2014–2019 bottom-40 values are 4.37239 and 6.18865, matching the embedded values after rounding.^[3] The dataset has since been revised and extended, so use the current World Bank sources for current analysis.

Sources: [1] World Bank Data Catalog · [2] World Bank Data360 · [3] Data360 API verification

Annualized growth, bottom 40%

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Source data

Global Database of Shared Prosperity and Median Income/Consumption, October 2022