The poverty gap index is a measure of the degree of poverty. It is defined as extent to which individuals on average fall below the poverty line, and expresses it as a percentage of the poverty line.[1]
The poverty gap index is an improvement over the poverty measure head count ratio, which simply counts all the people below a poverty line in a given population and considers them equally poor.[2] Poverty gap index estimates the depth of poverty by considering how far the poor are from that poverty line on average.[3]
The poverty gap index sometimes referred to as poverty gap ratio or pg index is defined as average of the ratio of the poverty gap to the poverty line.[4] It is expressed as a percentage of the poverty line for a country or region.[5]
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