Key Takeaways
- Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) shows 1.1 billion in acute multidimensional poverty in 2019-2021
- 25 countries have 1/3 of multidimensionally poor population
- MPI intensity averages 44.5% across poor households globally
- 333 million children under 5 in extreme poverty globally in 2022
- 1 in 6 children worldwide lives in extreme poverty
- Women and girls are 15% more likely to be poor than men
- In 2022, approximately 712 million people worldwide lived in extreme poverty, defined as less than $2.15 per day in 2017 PPP terms
- The global extreme poverty rate fell from 38% in 1990 to 8.7% in 2022
- 44% of the world's extreme poor lived in just two countries, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2022
- Sub-Saharan Africa has 40% of global extreme poor, 429 million people
- In South Asia, 101 million in extreme poverty in 2022
- East Asia and Pacific has 23 million extreme poor, lowest regional rate
- Extreme poverty declined from 36% in 1990 to 10% in 2015
- COVID reversed 3 years of progress, adding 97 million poor 2020-2021
- By 2030, projected 575 million still in extreme poverty, mostly SSA
In 2023, 1.3 billion people still live in multidimensional poverty, with the biggest burdens in sub-Saharan Africa.
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How We Rate Confidence
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