Because availability and frequency of household survey differ significantly across countries, it is infeasible to produce global poverty profiles in a given year which maintaining adequate data coverage. Instead, we choose the latest available survey for each available country in the I2D2,with a cut-off year of 2000.Thus all the global poverty profiles reported in this note should be interpreted as characteristics of the poor during the 2000s. We use data from as many as 73 countries,although the number of countries included differs across profiling variables