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Progress in Reducing Extreme Poverty
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Last updated 20 Apr 2019
Absolute or extreme poverty is having insufficient income or savings to meet basic human needs. The benchmark used at the moment for extreme poverty is the number of people or the percentage of a country's population living on less than US$1.90 per day, adjusted for purchasing power parity.
The latest data from the World Bank finds that less than ten per cent of the global population is living in extreme poverty and that substantial progress has been made over the last twenty years in lowering extreme poverty. But the benchmark itself is set at a very low level and there are always doubts about the accuracy of income data in many countries.
The chart below comes from work on extreme poverty from Our World in Data
Progress in reducing extreme poverty in Sub Saharan Africa has been much slower than in countries such as China.
Drugs and vaccines are crucial tools to combat TB. New research suggests preventative measures can lift vulnerable communities far enough out of poverty that they never contract the disease. [📰: @guardian] https://t.co/nC7GOjO3cO
— Gates Foundation (@gatesfoundation) March 27, 2018
My column today. Chris Hughes proposes taxing the rich to provide a guaranteed minimum income for the poor. It's heartening that some of America’s wealthiest individuals recognize the unfairness of the system,even though they have done well by it.@ProSyn https://t.co/mCo50ZwEIR
— Kaushik Basu (@kaushikcbasu) March 30, 2018
How incomes globally, in China, Sub-Saharan Africa, and India are changing.
— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) March 30, 2018
From our recent post 'Extreme poverty is falling: How is poverty changing for higher poverty lines?’ where you can see this perspective for all countries of the world:https://t.co/NyQYFOmvIe pic.twitter.com/3eyC7siru4
Here's how incomes break down around the world:
— World Bank Poverty (@WBG_Poverty) February 1, 2019
🌍 80% of people living on ~$1.00 a day are in Sub-Saharan Africa
🌏 50% of people living on $3.20 a day are in South Asia
🌏 50% of people living on $10 a day are in East Asia & Pacific
https://t.co/vJx9bphtjn #CountPovertyOut pic.twitter.com/ALM43a3Shz
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