Aggregate, national level indicators often hide important differences between regions or areas . . . The analysis of poverty, its determinants and poverty-reducing interventions therefore requires a focus on poverty information that is further geographically disaggregated. In addition, poverty and inequality are multidimensional – consumption and income, education, health, opportunities, voice, etc. – and have multiple determinants – geographic and agro-climatic factors, services, infrastructure, etc. The plotting of such information on maps – poverty mapping – is useful to display information on the spatial distribution of welfare and its determinants. It is also useful to display simultaneously different dimensions of poverty and/or its determinants. There are many types of poverty maps, a variety of use for these maps, and different ways to create them. This site provides information on the use of poverty maps, and on their construction. It also refers you to country applications and technical information.