Poverty Mapping

The global data sets are all translated to a common quarter-degree grid. A quarter-degree grid cell is approximately 770 square kilometers (300 square miles) at the equator, and progressively less at higher latitudes. The global data sets include metadata files and data sets in the following formats:

Prevalence of Child Malnutrition

[Underweight children under 5 : Total children under 5 ]

• Download Shapefile
  
  • Shapefile of the proportion of underweight children under 5 years old
• Download Grid
  
  • ¼ degree grid of the proportion of underweight children under 5
  • ¼ degree grid of total children under 5 [denominator]
  • ¼ degree grid of underweight children under 5 [numerator]
  • 2.5 minute grid of the proportion of underweight children under 5
  • 2.5 minute grid of total children under 5 [denominator]
  • 2.5 minute grid of underweight children under 5 [numerator]
• Download Data Table
  • Microsoft Excel and Comma-Separated Value tables of the proportion of underweight children under 5 at one resolution:
    1. Highest resolution that can be matched spatially (same resolution as shapefile)

Ancillary Grid Data 

[Country, population, land area, latitude, longitude, and sequence id number for each quarter-degree grid cell]

• Download Shapefile quarter-degree grid-cell onlyover 800,000 cases
• Download Grid all variables at quarter-degreecountry grid at 2.5 minute resolution also enclosed
• Download the Global Poverty Data Catalog