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 ...

Oxfam predicted in its new report that the world was on track to see at least five trillionaires within a decade.

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 ...

Chart: Axios Visuals A broad measure ... are more likely to live in poverty. The official poverty rate for families with children headed by a single woman was double the rate for those headed ...