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The new extreme poverty line of $2.15 per person per day, which replaces the $1.90 poverty line, 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 648 million people globally were in this situation in 2019. [7]
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 ...
Given the current economic model, built on GDP, it would take 100 years to bring the world's poorest up to the poverty line of $1.25 a day. [73] UNICEF estimates half the world's children (or 1.1 billion) live in poverty. [74] The World Bank forecasted in 2015 that 702.1 million people were living in extreme poverty, down from 1.75 billion in ...
List of countries by income equality. World map of income inequality Gini coefficients by country. Based on World Bank data ranging from 1992 to 2020. [1] This is a list of countries or dependencies by income inequality metrics, including Gini coefficients. The Gini coefficient is a number between 0 and 1, where 0 corresponds with perfect ...
Countries by median wealth (US dollars) per adult. From 2021 publication of Credit Suisse. This is a list of countries of the world by wealth per adult or household, from sources such as UBS 's annual Global Wealth Databook[1] and the OECD 's Better Life Index. [2] Wealth includes both financial and non-financial assets.
The World Bank's Voices of the Poor initiative, [28] based on research with over 20,000 poor people in 23 countries, identifies a range of factors that poor people consider elements of poverty. Most important are those necessary for material well-being, especially food.
One fact is clear: the effects of COVID-19 will impact the poor and poor economies to a disproportionately high degree, and causing more people to become poor. [67] In retrospect, countries, all over the world, injected vast monetary resources into social programs to mitigate the financial woes associated with the pandemic. [68]
Poverty in Africa is the lack of provision to satisfy the basic human needs of certain people in Africa. African nations typically fall toward the bottom of any list measuring small size economic activity, such as income per capita or GDP per capita, despite a wealth of natural resources. In 2009, 22 of 24 nations identified as having "Low ...