descriptive claim
The global extreme-poverty rate ($2.15/day 2017-PPP) fell from ~44% of world population in 1981 to ~8.5% in the early 2020s; the remaining ~700M people in extreme poverty are heavily concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa.
desc_extreme_poverty_trajectory
confidence 0.90
Warrants (2)
supports (2)
- Our World in Data direct_measurementweight0.80
locator: Global extreme-poverty page
- Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report (World Bank) direct_measurementweight0.95
locator: Global extreme-poverty trajectory tables