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The poverty line for lower middle-income countries (LMICs) has moved to US$3.65 from US$3.20, while the poverty line for upper middle-income countries (UMICs) has moved to US$6.85 from US$5.50. [6] The first table lists countries by the percentage of their population with an income of less than $2.15 (the extreme poverty line), $3.65 and $6.85 ...
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
The World Poverty Clock [1] is a tool to monitor progress against poverty globally, [2] and regionally. [3] It provides real-time poverty data across countries. [4] [5] Created by the Vienna-based NGO, World Data Lab, it was launched in Berlin at the re:publica conference in 2017, [6] [7] and is funded by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The number of children living in extreme poverty has nearly tripled in the past five years, according to a new report that lays bare the impact of the cost of living crisis on hard-hit families ...
The Tamil language is native to Tamil Nadu , Puducherry (India) and Sri Lanka, where most of the native Tamil speaking population is highly concentrated. Tamil is also recognized as a classical language by the Government of India in 2004 and was the first language to achieve such status. [1] Tamil is one of the 22 official languages of India. [2]
The number of children living in poverty also fell in 2020/21, down year on year from 4.3 million to 3.9 million, meaning some 400,000 children were pulled out of poverty.
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 ...
The substantial reduction in urban and rural poverty at a huge level since the economic improvements of the 1990s, shows that poverty reduction and social well-being programmes have brought in rising incomes for the poor. [6] Kanyakumari is the district with the highest Human Development Index in the report of 2017.