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Poverty

Where People Live in Extreme Poverty

The place where the highest share of people continue to live in extreme poverty is Sub-Saharan Africa. As of 2019, the latest year available , more than a third of people in the region lived below the international poverty line (currently defined as subsisting on $2.15 per day). Some of the countries most affected by this were Madagascar, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan.

Several countries in the Americas and Asia also have a high share of people who live below the poverty line, for example Honduras, Bangladesh and India, where extreme poverty affected between 10 percent and 13.5 percent of people as of the latest available data. In Haiti, this number stood even higher at 29.2 percent when data was last released in 2012.

Overall, in the Middle East and North Africa as well as in South Asia, the share of the population in extreme poverty had dropped under 10 percent previous to the Covid-19 pandemic. In Latin America and the Caribbean, it stood even lower at 4.7 percent as of 2021.

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This chart shows the Share of people in selected countries living below the international poverty line*

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Population share living below national poverty line ASEAN 2023, by country
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Number of people living below the poverty line in France 1996-2023
Haiti's working population below poverty line 2000-2025
White non-Hispanic families living below the poverty line in the U.S. 1990-2024
Number of families and people living below the poverty line in Italy 2014-2023
Poverty line for households in Italy 2024

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