Poverty in India is a complex and multifaceted issue influenced by a combination of historical, economic, social, and political factors. Several renowned economists and leaders have provided ...

The world has made tremendous progress in reducing extreme poverty. The percentage of people living in extreme poverty globally fell to a new low of 10 percent in 2015 — the latest number available — ...

1 in 10 people in the world live under $1.90 a day, and half of the extreme poor live in Sub-Saharan Africa Global extreme poverty continues to fall rapidly. In 2013, the year for which the most ...

China claimed last year it had met its target of lifting all its people out of extreme poverty. President Xi Jinping heralded it as a “major victory” that the Chinese Communist Party had ...

The poverty rate for single-parent households surveyed in 2021 decreased by 3.8 percentage points from the previous survey in 2018 to 44.5 percent, but it remains high.