Analysis | The missing poor: Data blind spots perpetuate social injustice (Channel 24)

Channel 24 (South Africa) posted an article on disparities between developing and developed countries with gathering data. The uncounted, the unsurveyed, the undocumented, and unresearched have many different faces, but often include materially poor communities, socially marginalized individuals such as migrants and the homeless, and residents in war-torn areas. Kalle Hirvonen reports that there were more articles published in the top two health economics journals over the past decade about the Nordic countries, with a combined population of 27 million people, than about African or Asian countries, which represent 2.9 billion of the world population.