World Poverty Clock

The World Poverty Clock [1] is a tool to monitor progress against poverty globally,[2] and regionally.[3] It provides real-time poverty data across countries.[4][5] Created by the Vienna-based NGO, World Data Lab, it was launched in Berlin at the re:publica conference in 2017,[6][7] and is funded by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.[1]

The clock seeks to address a gap in development data around social progress indicators, starting with poverty numbers, and tries to align them with economic and demographic indicators like Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and population clocks[8] and forecast respectively, which already have real-time and forward looking estimates.

  1. ^ a b "World Poverty Clock". Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  2. ^ Kharas, Homi (May 2017). "Making Everyone Count: A Clock to Track Poverty in Realtime". Brookings Institution Global Economy and Development Papers.
  3. ^ "Africa and the World Poverty Clock". Brookings Institution Working Papers. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  4. ^ ndemo, bitagne (August 14, 2017). "New groundbreaking ways of measuring economic progress". The Nation (Kenya). Retrieved August 31, 2017.
  5. ^ Weller, Chris. "An economist says 66 countries could end poverty by giving their citizens free money". Business Insider. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  6. ^ Brookings (2017). Making Everyone Count: A Clock to Track Poverty in Realtime. Available at: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2017/05/10/making-everyone-count-a-clock-to-track-world-poverty-in-real-time/
  7. ^ "World Poverty Clock: Pointers for India". Free Press Journal. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  8. ^ U.S. Census Bureau. Population Clock Available at: https://www.census.gov/popclock/