“The share of the world’s population living in extreme poverty—defined as living on less than $2.15 in 2017 PPP dollars per day—has declined dramatically, from an estimated 41% in 1981 to 8% in 2024,” ...

About 700 million people—or 8.5 percent of the global population—live in extreme poverty on less than $2.15 a day, a World Bank report has said. The bank also added that around 3.5 billion people live ...

The United Nations has raised fresh concerns over rising global poverty and hunger, warning that the world is off track to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030, a central target of the Sustainable ...

New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...

Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

One Youth Global has raised fresh alarm over Nigeria’s deepening social crisis, saying more than 120 million people are living in extreme poverty while ...

An estimated 417 million children in low- and middle-income countries are living in extreme poverty. Millions of children in high-income countries are also suffering. And more children are at risk of ...

On Nov. 1, the southern Indian state of Kerala will be officially declared the first among the nation’s 28 states to be “free of extreme poverty.” This is a remarkable achievement, experts say, as the ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights’ thematic report on “Welfare and Control: The Paternalism of Support,” ...

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 ...

HYDERABAD: Panchayat Raj & Rural Development Minister Danasari Anasuyaalias Seethakka on Thursday announced that the government would provide financial assistance to households with extreme poverty ...