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Poverty may therefore also be defined as the economic condition of lacking predictable and stable means of meeting basic life needs. As a result of the adoption of the 2017 PPPs, the global poverty lines have been revised in 2022: The international poverty line, used to define extreme global poverty, was revised to US$2.15 from US$1.90. Poverty ...
[38] [39] Each state in India has its own poverty threshold to determine how many people are below its poverty line and to reflect regional economic conditions. These differences in definitions yield a complex and conflicting picture about poverty in India, both internally and when compared to other developing countries of the world. [40]
India, in 2019 has about 2.7% [1] population under poverty level and is no longer holding the largest population under poverty level, considering Nigeria and Congo. [2] On the other hand, the Planning Commission of India uses its own criteria and has estimated that 27.5% of the population was living below the poverty line in 2004–2005, down ...
List of countries in Asia and Oceania by Human Development Index Rank Nation Human Development Index (HDI) Region World HDI 2022 HDI 2021 Change in HDI Value (2021-2022) Very High Human Development 1 4 Hong Kong, China (SAR) [note 1] 0.956 0.959 0.003 2 9 Singapore: 0.949 0.942 0.007 3 12 Australia: 0.946 0.949 0.003 4 16 New Zealand: 0.939 0.936
Various poverty lines and resulting percentage of BPL population Method Line Figure % of poor population Poor population World Bank (2021) poverty line 1.90 (PPP $ day) 6 84m [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
Philip Alston, a UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, stated the World Bank's international poverty line of $1.90 a day is fundamentally flawed, and has allowed for "self congratulatory" triumphalism in the fight against extreme global poverty, which he asserts is "completely off track" and that nearly half of the global ...
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In October 2017, the World Bank updated the international poverty line, a global absolute minimum, to $1.90 a day. [3] This is the equivalent of $1.00 a day in 1996 US prices, hence the widely used expression "living on less than a dollar a day". [4] The vast majority of those in extreme poverty reside in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.