| Data Item | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World | 1,545.30 | 1,486.63 | 1,427.97 | 1,369.30 | 1,332.50 | 1,295.70 | 1,258.90 | 1,294.17 | 1,329.43 | 1,364.70 | 1,355.83 | 1,346.97 | 1,338.10 | 1,275.40 | 1,212.70 | 1,150.00 | 1,160.63 | 1,171.27 | 1,181.90 | 1,153.43 | 1,124.97 | 1,096.50 | 1,026.37 | 956.23 | 886.10 | 859.37 | 832.63 | 805.90 |
The World Bank regularly calculates the total number of people in the world who live in households whose daily income is less than a dollar a person.
Source: Angus Deaton, The Great Escape (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), pg. 45