Poverty Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
2024年10月15日 · Three-quarters of all people in extreme poverty live in Sub-Saharan Africa or in fragile and conflict-affected countries. 44 percent of the global population – around 3.5 billion people – live today on less than $6.85 per day, the poverty line relevant for …
Poverty : Development news, research, data | World Bank
2024年12月3日 · Almost 700 million people – 8.5 percent of the global population – live today on less than $2.15 per day, the extreme poverty line for low-income countries. Around 3.5 billion people – 44 percent of the global population – live on less than $6.85 per day, the poverty line more relevant for upper-middle-income countries.
Poorest Economies Face Toughest Conditions in Two Decades
The world’s 26 poorest economies, home to about 40 percent of all people who live on less than $2.15 a day, are deeper in debt than at any time since 2006 and increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters and other shocks, new analysis from the World Bank shows. Yet international aid as a share of their GDP has dwindled to a two-decade low, forcing many to obtain financing on …
2023 International Debt Report - World Bank Group
2023年12月13日 · Amid the biggest surge in global interest rates in four decades, developing countries spent a record $443.5 billion to service their external public and publicly guaranteed debt in 2022, the World Bank’s latest International Debt Report shows. The increase in costs shifted scarce resources away from critical needs such as health, education, and the …
For Poorest Economies, Next 25 Years Could Prove Decisive
2024年12月12日 · Without Course Correction, 20 of 26 Countries Would Remain Poor Through 2050. WASHINGTON, December 12, 2024— The next 25 years could prove decisive in determining whether the world’s 26 poorest countries progress to middle-income status, a new World Bank analysis shows.
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022 - World Bank Group
In many countries, taxes and transfers make the poor poorer, it doesn’t have to be this way Part 1: Progress on Poverty and Shared Prosperity Progress in reducing global poverty has essentially halted: by 2030, nearly 7 percent of the world's population—nearly 600 million people—will still struggle in extreme poverty.
2023 in Nine Charts: A Growing Inequality - World Bank Group
2023年12月18日 · If 2022 was a year of uncertainty, 2023 is the year of inequality.For countries hoping to bounce back from the devastating losses of the COVID-19 pandemic, the battle has been made tougher by the compounding threats of climate change, fragility, conflict and violence, or food insecurity, to name a few—that make it difficult for economies across the board to fully …
Trade has been a powerful driver of economic development and …
From 1990 to 2017, developing countries increased their share of global exports from 16 percent to 30 percent; in the same period, the global poverty rate fell from 36 percent to 9 percent. Not all countries have benefited equally, but overall, trade has generated unprecedented prosperity, helping to lift some 1 billion people out of poverty in ...
Year in Review: 2019 in 14 Charts - World Bank Group
2019年12月20日 · New data show that 53% of all children in low- and middle-income countries and 89% of children in poor countries suffer from learning poverty. At the current rate of progress on literacy, 43% of children in low- and middle-income countries will still be learning poor by 2030.
Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative - World Bank …
2024年5月9日 · The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other multilateral, bilateral and commercial creditors began the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative in 1996. The program was designed to ensure that the poorest countries in the world are not overwhelmed by unmanageable or unsustainable debt burdens.