- sourceNote
- Rural poverty gap at national poverty lines is the rural population's mean shortfall from the poverty lines (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall) as a percentage of the poverty lines. This measure reflects the depth of poverty as well as its incidence.
- sourceOrganization
- World Bank, Global Poverty Working Group. Data are compiled from official government sources or are computed by World Bank staff using national (i.e. country–specific) poverty lines.
- topics
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Agriculture & Rural Development
Poverty
- page
- http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.RUGP
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