The Global Consumption and Income Project
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This paper introduce two separate datasets, making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world.
The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates of monthly real consumption and income for every percentile of the population (a ‘consumption/income profile’) for 158 countries and more than half a century (1960-2015). We describe the construction of the datasets and demonstrate possible uses by presenting some sample results concerning the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world.