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Poverty and inequality in Guatemala, 1981-2026 (World Bank, PIP)

Poverty rate at the international lines of $3, $4.20 and $8.30 a day (2021 PPP) and at the earlier $2.15, $3.65 and $6.85 lines (2017 PPP), poverty gap, Watts index, mean income, Gini coefficient and each decile's income share, from the World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform, from 1981 to 2026.

data points
1,888
series
136
Period
1981–2026
Attribution the licence asks for
World Bank (2026), Poverty and Inequality Platform (version 20260922_2021_01_02_PROD), pip.worldbank.org. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
Licence read on
Nov 8, 2026
Frequencies
Annual: 136 series
Nature of the data
Projected: 1,368 data points · Published: 448 data points · Modelled: 72 data points
Retrieved
Nov 7, 2026
Data state
Advance Guatemala keeps the data point as the source published it: it does not compare it with other sources or apply the tolerance bands it uses for the site's verified figures.

Dimensions

How the source classifies its series, with the most frequent values first.

  • PPP year

    • 2017
    • 2021

Notes

Only survey years are measurements; the rest are the platform's lineup estimates, marked modelled, and recent years are marked projected. It is measured on household income.

Series

Every series in the dataset. Open one to see its data points, each with its source link.