Today, almost 700 million people (8.5 percent of the global population) live in extreme poverty - on less than $2.15 per day. Progress has stalled amid low growth, setbacks due to COVID-19, and ...

Extreme poverty is officially defined by the World Bank as living on less than $1.90 a day in low-income countries. However, the threshold varies depending on a country's economic status.

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THE Johor government has reaffirmed its commitment to eliminate extreme poverty by the end of this year. Read full story ...

Based on data presented by the Acting Head of Statistics Indonesia (BPS), Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti, extreme poverty is ...

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Extreme poverty would have been around 1.8 percentage points higher, and overall poverty would have been 2.9 percentage points higher on average in 7 countries. In its annual report Social ...

China claimed last year it had met its target of lifting all its people out of extreme poverty. President Xi Jinping heralded it as a “major victory” that the Chinese Communist Party had ...