Historical national accounts estimates of the share of the world's population living on less than $5 per
day, by region

Average incomes measured in national accounts are often much higher than those observed in survey data. As such the poverty rates shown are lower than correspondingestimates based on survey data – this includes the official estimates produced by the World Bank used to monitor progress against SDG1. See Roser and Hasell (2021) forfurther discussion.