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The Many Measures of Poverty

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Well-being can be measured using indicators other than income poverty. Three maps of Africa show country-by-country variations in the three indicators used by the United Nations Development Programme to annually measure human development: adult literacy, live expectancy at birth, and gross domestic product per capita.

Sources: World Bank, 2004a; United Nations Population Division 2003; UNESCO 2004.