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📊 Data update: How many people live in poverty around the world, and how has that changed over the last decades?
The World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) is one of the primary tools we have for answering these questions.
PIP achieves comprehensive global coverage by combining income and consumption surveys, and also includes non-monetary income. It's the official source used to track the UN's goal of ending poverty.
In recent decades, the world has made remarkable progress against extreme poverty, defined as living below the International Poverty Line of $3 per day.
In 1990, 2.3 billion people lived in extreme poverty. Since then the number has fallen by nearly two-thirds, to 826 million. But progress has slowed recently, and nearly one in ten people worldwide still live in extreme poverty.