India's extreme poverty rate declined sharply to 5.3% over a decade from 27.1% in 2011-12 even as the World Bank revised upwards its threshold poverty line to USD 3 per day. Given India's inflation ...

The proportion of Indians living in extreme poverty has plummeted from 27.1 per cent to just 5.3 per cent over the last decade, according to new data released by the World Bank. The international ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – A high-level U.N. panel recommended an ambitious roadmap Thursday to tackle the world’s major challenges, from climate change to equality for women, with a key goal of ending ...

THE World Bank, a trustworthy source of information and data, says that Kenya is the 10th-poorest country in the world, with ...

Extreme poverty in Latin America hit its highest level for nine years in 2017, according to a report by the UN's Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) published on Tuesday.

5 September - Around the world, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty and 1.1 billion people are still living in multidimensional poverty. As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

WASHINGTON, June 27, 2025—Conflict and instability are taking a devastating toll on the 39 economies afflicted by them, driving up extreme poverty faster than anywhere else, intensifying acute hunger, ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto highlighted his administration's commitment to eradicating extreme poverty and reducing the poverty rate in its ...

A mother struggling with schizophrenia, extreme poverty, and the demands of raising a teenager is now facing a $32,000 bill from the Social Security Administration. According to a post on the ...