The Wretched Dollar (up to $1 a day), 2004

Caption

The Wretched Dollar (up to $1 a day)

Summary

This “Worldmapper” map shows the numbers of people who live on less than or equal to 1 US dollar of purchasing power parity per day. Territory size shows the proportion of the global population living on up to a $1 a day from each particular country.

The map is accompanied by a table that shows the countries with the highest percentages of their total population living on a dollar a day. There is also a bar graph that shows the number of people living on a dollar per day by region.

Copyright status

© Copyright 2006 SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan)

Used on QED by permission.

Licensing

All rights reserved

Source

Worldmapper[1]