The distribution of poverty is changing: who’s living on $1.25 a day?
Since 1990, more than 700 million people have risen from extreme poverty (living on US$1.25 a day or less), but more than 1 billion people remain extremely poor today. And 1 in 3 of them are children.
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Learn more about the State of The Poor [PDF Report, 2MB]
GIF via full interactive graphic from The Brookings Institution with data from the World Bank’s PovCalNet
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