To the best of our knowledge , this is the first attempt to report poverty profiles at the global scale. An exercise such as this has not been possible until recently without a globally harmonized dataset such at the I2D2. Even the I2D2 is not free from data limitations described above and those widely documented in the poverty literature , including but not limited to the issue of comparability due to different survey designs across time and locations and that of Purchasing Power Parity Index used to convert local currencies to the international one. While we are aware of these limitations , we believe it is of great importance to make the most of available data and produce the best available estimates of the state of the poor as part of our renewed m mission to end extreme poverty by 2030.