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The new extreme poverty line of $2.15 per person per day is based on 2017 PPPs. [7] This means that anyone living on less than $2.15 a day is considered to be living in extreme poverty . About 692 million people globally were in this situation in 2024.
South Sudan: Eastern Africa: Low income 44.1 2016 44.14 2017 São Tomé and Príncipe: Middle Africa: Lower middle income 40.7 2017 40.75 2017 Suriname: South America: Upper middle income 39.2 2022 38.10 2017 Slovakia: Eastern Europe: High income 24.1 2021 24.12 2022 21.7 2021 Slovenia: Southern Europe: High income 24.3 2021 24.28
In 2012, around 170 million people, or 12.4% of India's population, lived in poverty (defined as $1.90 (Rs 123.5)), an improvement from 29.8% of India's population in 2009. [29] [30] In their paper, economists Sandhya Krishnan and Neeraj Hatekar conclude that 600 million people, or more than half of India's population, belong to the middle ...
Rank Richer country GDP (PPP) per capita [1Year Poorer country GDP (PPP) per capita [1Year Ratio [2] Continent/ Region 1 Saudi Arabia 54,800: 2017 est. Yemen 1,300: 2017 est. 42.154
This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), as published by the UNDP in its 2024 Human Development Report.According to the 2016 Report, "The IHDI can be interpreted as the level of human development when inequality is accounted for", whereas the Human Development Index itself, from which the IHDI is derived, is "an index of potential human development (or ...
I grew up in Kenya’s Kibera slum, the largest urban slum in Africa, and experienced extreme poverty firsthand. I was a street child, constantly scraping by for food and water, and lacking basic ...
[7] lower middle-income line 3.20 (PPP $ day) 26.2 365m [7] upper middle-income line 5.50 (PPP $ day) 60.1 838m [7] Asian Development Bank (2014) poverty line $ 1.51 per person per day [8] Tendulkar Expert Group (2009) urban poverty line Rs 32 per person per day consumption [9] rural poverty line Rs 26 per person per day consumption [9]
Number of people living in extreme poverty from 1820 to 2015. Population not in extreme poverty Population living in extreme poverty Total population living in extreme poverty, by world region 1990 to 2015. Latin America and Caribbean East Asia and Pacific Islands South Asia Middle East and North Africa Europe and Central Asia Sub-Saharan Africa Other high income countries The number of people ...