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June 2025 Update to Global Poverty Lines

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...
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The Myth of the Poverty Trap

We used to be trapped. And by “we,” I really do mean all of us. A few hundred years ago, the majority of the world lived in extreme poverty, and even in recent decades, people lucky enough to clear ...
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Why the way we measure poverty matters

5 September - Around the world, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty and 1.1 billion people are still living in multidimensional poverty. As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

As world leaders enter climate talks, people in poverty have the most at stake

In the leadup to the annual United Nations climate conference, the U.N. Development Programme has released new data about how ...
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Study finds nearly 80% of the world’s poor live in regions most exposed to climate disasters

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) have made a notable report to uncover a new fact about poverty. Almost 8 in 10 of the ...
World Bank

Child Poverty: Global, Regional and Select National Trends

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

COVID, climate and conflict conspire to push up poverty

Extreme poverty will rise for the first time this century as COVID-19 hammers the global economy, the World Bank said on ...
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Extreme poverty in India sees sharp decline! Number dips from 344.47 million to 75.24 million; poverty rate down to 5.3%, says World Bank

The number of people in India living in extreme poverty declined sharply in the last decade, from 27.1% to 5.3%, as per latest data estimates released by the World Bank. According to the World Bank’s ...
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Extreme Poverty Becoming More Concentrated in Conflict Countries, Warns World Bank

Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in economies that have been blighted by armed conflict, which has become more common over the course of this century, the World Bank said Friday. In a ...
The Conversation

Has extreme poverty really plunged since the 1980s? New analysis suggests not

Jason Hickel receives funding from European Research Council (ERC-2022-SYG reference number 101071647). Dylan Sullivan receives funding from European Research Council (ERC-2022-SYG reference number ...
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Investing in agriculture reduces poverty and inequality: economic model finds the best funding mix for 10 African countries

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...