World poverty rates can be reliably estimated for periods prior to 1800.

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Economic historians and historical demographers utilize diverse pre-industrial records, such as subsistence welfare ratios and parish data, to reliably estimate population development and poverty rates prior to 1800.

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The retrieved literature includes papers that actively study historical population reconstructions (Paper [3]) and analyze pre-industrial extreme poverty and living standards using historical proxies spanning the 1300s to 1900s (Paper [9]). These studies confirm that methodologies exist to estimate historical demographics and poverty prior to 1800. Therefore, the claim is supported by the provided evidence.

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A Bayesian Reconstruction of a Historical Population in Finland, 1647-1850.

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Voutilainen M, Helske J, Högmander H. A Bayesian Reconstruction of a Historical Population in Finland, 1647-1850.. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-020-00889-1

This study demonstrates how historical demographic and parish-level data can be modeled to reconstruct population development prior to 1800.

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Re-examining extreme poverty before and after the transition to capitalism, 1300s–1900s: the issue of definition, periodization, measurement, and causal responsibility

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T. Rutar. Re-examining extreme poverty before and after the transition to capitalism, 1300s–1900s: the issue of definition, periodization, measurement, and causal responsibility. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2024.2380314

This paper evaluates non-GDP-based historical sources and metrics to analyze extreme poverty and living standards dating back to the 1300s.

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