https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/icp/brief/methodology-calculation
With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2017/03/02/part1-understanding-poverty-sri-lanka
In both cases, the line was set based on the national poverty lines of 15 very low-income countries, converted to US$ using purchasing power parity exchange rates (more details can be found here) Sri Lanka has among the lowest extreme poverty rates among countries in the region, as 1.8 percent of the population were estimated to be extremely ...
https://www.worldbank.org/en/search?q=Purchasing+power+parity¤tTab=1
2005 PPP conversion factor, GDP (LCU per international $) Purchasing power parity conversion factor is the number of units of a country's currency required to buy the same amounts of goods and services in the domestic market as U.S. dollar would buy in the United States. New purchasing power parities show low- and middle-income ...
2005 PPP conversion factor, GDP (LCU per international $) Purchasing power parity conversion factor is the number of units of a country's currency required to buy the same amounts of goods and services in the domestic market as U.S. dollar would buy in the United States. New purchasing power parities show low- and middle-income ...
https://www.worldbank.org/en/search?q=Purchasing+power+parity¤tTab=8
2005 PPP conversion factor, GDP (LCU per international $) Purchasing power parity conversion factor is the number of units of a country's currency required to buy the same amounts of goods and services in the domestic market as U.S. dollar would buy in the United States.
2005 PPP conversion factor, GDP (LCU per international $) Purchasing power parity conversion factor is the number of units of a country's currency required to buy the same amounts of goods and services in the domestic market as U.S. dollar would buy in the United States. New purchasing power parities show low- and middle-income ...
https://www.worldbank.org/en/search?q=Purchasing+power+parity¤tTab=2
2005 PPP conversion factor, GDP (LCU per international $) Purchasing power parity conversion factor is the number of units of a country's currency required to buy the same amounts of goods and services in the domestic market as U.S. dollar would buy in the United States. New purchasing power parities show low- and middle-income ...
https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/global-poverty-line-faq
In 1990, a group of independent researchers and the World Bank proposed to measure the world’s poor using the standards of the poorest countries in the World. They examined national poverty lines from some of the poorest countries in the world, and converted the lines to a common currency by using purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates.
With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/srilanka/data
Sri Lanka The Human Capital Index (HCI) database provides data at the country level for each of the components of the Human Capital Index as well as for the overall index, disaggregated by gender. The index measures the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18, given the risks of poor health and poor ...