WORLD PULSE
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World Pulse · dashboard

The world, indicator by indicator

21 indicators · 217 countries · 156,366 observations. Each indicator is read at the most recent year that still has near-complete coverage. Neither rule works alone: child stunting's newest year has six reporters, and internet use is best covered in 1990, when nearly every country reported it as zero.

Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population)

read at 2021 · 5 years old

Share of the population living on less than $3.00 a day at 2021 purchasing-power parity — the World Bank's international extreme-poverty line.

World median

0.9% of population

Countries reporting

81/ 217

Observations, all years

2.4k

The median is computed across the 81 countries reporting in 2021 — arithmetic over real values, not a published figure. Lower is better for this indicator.

How the world is spread · 2021

53 countries between 0.0 and 2.6 % of population5 countries between 2.6 and 5.1 % of population4 countries between 5.1 and 7.7 % of population3 countries between 7.7 and 10.2 % of population2 countries between 10.2 and 12.8 % of population1 country between 17.9 and 20.5 % of population1 country between 20.5 and 23.0 % of population1 country between 23.0 and 25.6 % of population2 countries between 25.6 and 28.1 % of population1 country between 33.2 and 35.8 % of population1 country between 35.8 and 38.4 % of population2 countries between 38.4 and 40.9 % of population1 country between 40.9 and 43.5 % of population1 country between 46.0 and 48.6 % of population1 country between 58.8 and 61.4 % of population2 countries between 69.0 and 71.6 % of populationMEDIAN0.071.6
81 countries reporting · each bar is a count of countries, not a value

Pakistan did not report this indicator in 2021, so it cannot be placed in this distribution. See what it did report →

How much of the world was measured

ALL 2171963: 1 of 217 countries reported1964: 1 of 217 countries reported1965: 1 of 217 countries reported1966: 1 of 217 countries reported1967: 1 of 217 countries reported1968: 2 of 217 countries reported1969: 2 of 217 countries reported1970: 3 of 217 countries reported1971: 3 of 217 countries reported1972: 2 of 217 countries reported1973: 3 of 217 countries reported1974: 2 of 217 countries reported1975: 5 of 217 countries reported1976: 2 of 217 countries reported1977: 5 of 217 countries reported1978: 3 of 217 countries reported1979: 8 of 217 countries reported1980: 7 of 217 countries reported1981: 12 of 217 countries reported1982: 6 of 217 countries reported1983: 7 of 217 countries reported1984: 12 of 217 countries reported1985: 17 of 217 countries reported1986: 17 of 217 countries reported1987: 27 of 217 countries reported1988: 16 of 217 countries reported1989: 23 of 217 countries reported1990: 23 of 217 countries reported1991: 23 of 217 countries reported1992: 41 of 217 countries reported1993: 36 of 217 countries reported1994: 31 of 217 countries reported1995: 47 of 217 countries reported1996: 43 of 217 countries reported1997: 36 of 217 countries reported1998: 54 of 217 countries reported1999: 45 of 217 countries reported2000: 57 of 217 countries reported2001: 48 of 217 countries reported2002: 69 of 217 countries reported2003: 70 of 217 countries reported2004: 76 of 217 countries reported2005: 81 of 217 countries reported2006: 82 of 217 countries reported2007: 72 of 217 countries reported2008: 79 of 217 countries reported2009: 83 of 217 countries reported2010: 86 of 217 countries reported2011: 82 of 217 countries reported2012: 87 of 217 countries reported2013: 77 of 217 countries reported2014: 84 of 217 countries reported2015: 87 of 217 countries reported2016: 83 of 217 countries reported2017: 78 of 217 countries reported2018: 93 of 217 countries reported2019: 78 of 217 countries reported2020: 70 of 217 countries reported2021: 81 of 217 countries reported2022: 73 of 217 countries reported2023: 57 of 217 countries reported2024: 25 of 217 countries reported2025: 4 of 217 countries reported19632025
Best year 2018 with 93 of 217 · most recent 2025 with 4. A short bar means the world did not measure, not that the value fell.

Highest · 2021

Central African Republic71.6
Madagascar69.2
Niger60.5
Kenya46.4
Burkina Faso42.1
Guinea-Bissau39.9
Ethiopia38.6
Mali36.1

Lowest · 2021

Thailand0.0
Switzerland0.0
Slovenia0.0
Malaysia0.0
Kazakhstan0.0
Finland0.0
Cyprus0.0
China0.0

Read with care

  • · REBASED LINE. This is the $3.00 (2021 PPP) line and is not comparable with the older $1.90 (2011 PPP) or $2.15 (2017 PPP) series.
  • · Not a national poverty line. Pakistan's own headline poverty rate uses a different threshold and is reported separately on this site — the two must never be merged.
  • · Depends on household surveys that many countries run only every few years, so coverage is sparse and irregular.

What we can actually see

Coverage is wildly uneven, and that unevenness is a finding rather than a footnote. Life expectancy is near-universal; the survey-based indicators are not. Sorted by how much of the world reports at all.

IndicatorCountriesYearsRead atObservations
Life expectancy217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,071
Fertility rate217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,073
Population217 / 2171960–20252025 (217)14,292
Electricity access216 / 2171990–20242024 (215)6,747
GDP per capita214 / 2171960–20252025 (186)11,764
Internet use213 / 2171990–20252024 (182)6,224
Primary enrolment209 / 2171970–20252023 (166)7,495
GDP per capita (PPP)203 / 2171990–20252025 (185)7,020
Education spending203 / 2171970–20252022 (164)5,124
CO₂ per person203 / 2171970–20242024 (203)11,165
Under-5 mortality196 / 2171960–20242024 (196)11,861
Maternal mortality194 / 2171985–20232023 (194)7,566
Inflation193 / 2171960–20252025 (165)9,136
Health spending193 / 2172000–20242023 (192)4,562
Unemployment187 / 2171991–20252025 (182)6,531
Extreme poverty171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Income inequality (Gini)171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Adult literacy170 / 2171970–20242022 (45)1,121
Military spending164 / 2171960–20242024 (147)7,909
Child stunting163 / 2171983–20242018 (48)1,129
Safe drinking water151 / 2172000–20242024 (148)3,716

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Nothing here is interpolated — where a country never reported, it is absent rather than estimated. Browse every country →