But the rate dropped only one percentage point in the two years from 2013 to 2015. In fact, the total number of poor in Sub-Saharan Africa has been increasing. In 2015, more extreme poor lived in that ...

The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

Poverty affects people around the world. Entire nations are rarely poor but people within nations are. A rich country such as the UK has many people living poverty. A country we tend to think of ...

Global economy 'will suffer for years to come' Before the pandemic struck, the extreme poverty rate was expected to drop to 7.9% in 2020. But now it is likely to affect between 9.1% and 9.4% of ...

Scotland can be a more affordable place to live for lower income families The greater availability of affordable social housing in Scotland has kept its poverty rate down, according to a wide ...

Many people suffer with the consequences of extreme poverty, particularly in the developing world. Many Christians ... are more likely to have high rates of child mortality, poor life expectancy ...