The world has made tremendous progress in reducing extreme poverty. The percentage of people living in extreme poverty globally fell to a new low of 10 percent in 2015 — the latest number available — ...

The first table of the World Bank's World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty shows that the number of people living on less than $1 a day grew from 1.18 billion in 1987 to 1.20 billion in ...

Poverty affects people around the world. Entire nations are rarely poor but people within nations are. A rich country such as the UK has many people living poverty. A country we tend to think of ...

National and rural poverty have stagnated while urban poverty increased. Source: World Bank estimates based on 2012 ENSMOD and 2022 EPM data. Multiple deprivations explain persistently high monetary ...