2024年10月15日 · Three-quarters of all people in extreme poverty live in Sub-Saharan Africa or in fragile and conflict-affected countries. 44 percent of the global population – around 3.5 billion people – live today on less than $6.85 per day, the poverty line relevant for …

2023年1月13日 · Poor people will be impacted by changes in food production, higher consumption prices and changes in rural incomes as a consequence of impacts on agricultural productivity and prices driven up by either gradual changes in long-term climate trends or more frequent and severe natural disasters.

Almost 700 million people – 8.5 percent of the global population – live today on less than $2.15 per day, the extreme poverty line for low-income countries. Around 3.5 billion people – 44 percent of the global population – live on less than $6.85 per day, the poverty line more relevant for upper-middle-income countries.

Around 3.5 billion people (44 percent of the global population) remain poor by a standard that is more relevant for upper middle-income countries ($6.85 per day), and the number or people living on less than this standard has barely changed since the 1990s due to population growth.

the number of poor individuals has risen steadily and dramatically between 1981 and 2010 (figure 2). There were more than twice as many extremely poor people living in SSA in 2010 (414 million) than there were three decades ago (205 million).

In general, poor health is disproportionately concentrated among the poor. Strategy. The World Bank’s work in the area of health equity and financial protection is defined by the 2007 Health, Nutrition and Population Strategy. The strategy identifies “preventing poverty due to illness (by improving financial protection)” as one of its ...

2016年4月8日 · This trend is especially pronounced in India, where the World Bank estimated that up to 55% of people lived in urban settings in 2010, far more than the official rate of 31%. While many of these people making the move to urban centres do so in search of jobs and better lives, millions end up living in slums, and conditions for the urban poor ...

2021年12月10日 · "National average income levels are poor predictors of inequality," they explain. High-income countries can be unequal, as can low- and middle-income countries. Indeed, while over the last two decades global inequalities between countries have declined, income inequality has increased within most countries.

2017年3月2日 · In contrast, Mullaitivu and Mannar, where estimated poverty rates are very high (28.8 and 20.1 percent, respectively), account for only 3.4 percent of poor people nationwide due to their small populations. The same is true at the DS division level, where large numbers of poor exist in Gampaha, Nuwara Eliya, and Ratnapura districts.

2015年8月21日 · The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no …