Steemit Good News Story : Attacking Global Poverty with STEEM and Steemit

In 2015 26 countries were identified as having part of their  population living in below the poverty line.  The poverty line at the  time meaning they live off less than $1.90 per day.

I obtained this data from https://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/poverty-and-equity-database however this is limited to official returns submitted.  In 2014 36 countries were identified as more data has been collected. 

Here are the 26 countries will the number of people in millions that  are living on $ 1.90 or less per day in 2015.  This is the same data  shown in the map above.

Let’s focus on Indonesia

In 2015 Indonesia had 19.3 million people living on under $1.90 a day “Indonesia’s national poverty line is set at consumption outlays of  Rp 302,735 (US$25) per month per person–about 82 cents a day.” Source. https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/177017/ino-paper-04-2015.pdf. Okay I can already hear you say ‘I thought this post was a good news story?” well stick with me because we are getting there 

Average Payout per Steemit Post

Over the last few months I have been tracking the average pay out per  post.  Taking every post, but excluding comments, in the month of  October the average pay out per post was $2.20 You can check out the last report here That’s well above the Indonesian poverty line of 82 cents. Does this  mean that a person in Indonesia could lift themselves out of poverty  with Steemit? Now this is good news. 

Looking at the Steemit Data

I connected to Steemsql held and managed by @ arcange  and  I pulled all the rows from the comments table where the data is between  1 Nov and 14th Nov and where the category or one of the tags is  Indonesia For this two week period, there were 4787 unique authors of posts  (not comments) using the category or tag Indonesia.  These authors  posted 61,570 posts with a total pay out value of $123,111.  The average  daily pay out for this tag/category averages at $8,793 and the average  post value is $2. This daily average of $8,793 @ 82 cent per person would lift 10,723  out of the local poverty line a day.  Awesome.  An average post value of  $2 would lift authors reaching this above the global poverty line of  $1.90

 Let me explain these charts.  On the top is a breakdown of the 61,570 posts.   • Posts labelled No Contribution have earned nothing.  • Posts labelled Contribution have earned less than 82 cents and therefor only made a contribution to the author.  • Posts labelled above local poverty are posts that have earned  between 82 cents and $1.89, taking the authors earnings above the local  poverty line   • Posts labelled above global poverty are posts that earned $1.9 or  more taking the authors earnings on the post to above the global poverty  line  The bottom chart shows how many authors had posts in each payment  category.  Although 36% of authors have a post with no pay out, many of  these authors have further posts with pay outs.  In fact only 16% of  authors have no pay outs, some of which are down to content being down  voted due to spam, plagrisim and other reasons. The table below shows the steemains using the Indonesia tag or  category sorted by the total post payout for that steemain for the two  weeks in question

The same data, but this time sorted by average payment per post

Conclusion

Steemit has the ability to reach millions of people around the world  that are living below the global poverty line.  Indonesia being a  perfect example.  Within a 2 week period, 27% of authors within this tag  have earned more that the local poverty line with one or more posts.   This is true prof that together we can attack global poverty with  Steemit. This post is the first post in the series of Steemit Good News  stories backed up with data.  Steemit is such an awesome platform and  the possibilities are endless.  

The blockchain data holds a lot.  It  holds some ‘dark’ stuff and some ‘suspicious’ stuff.  But it also holds  huge amounts of awesome stuff, stuff that makes a different. Stuff I  want to spend some time focusing on.  

This series will post the good  news stories behind the data on Steemit To start with, just before completing this article I went over to  #Indonesia and I upvoted a number of posts with a $2 vote.  

Why?  Because I could with the thanks of delegation I have received from @stellabelle and @fulltimegeek Here are some of the posts I curated https://steemit.com/indonesia/@roziansyah23/seorang-pengusaha-muda-20171123t1122636z https://steemit.com/indonesia/@ettydiallova/salam-kenal-dari-etty-diallova https://steemit.com/indonesia/@levycore/catatan-kurator-indonesia You can make a difference too.  Hope over to   #Indonesia and shown them some support. Help attack global poverty with your Steemit Vote.