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By Rosamond Hutt
- About 1.1 billion people have moved out of extreme poverty since 1990.
- 15 countries have made rapid progress in reducing extreme poverty.
- Tanzania almost halved its extreme poverty in just over a decade.
- China, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova and Vietnam effectively ended extreme poverty by 2015.
An estimated 1.1 billion people have lifted themselves out of extreme poverty in just a few decades.
By 2015, according to the most recent data, 736 million people, or about 10% of the world’s population, were living in extreme poverty, which the World Bank defines as living on the equivalent of $1.90 or less per day. That’s down from 1.85 billion people in 1990.
However, some countries have experienced more success than others in reducing rates of extreme poverty – China being the most obvious example.
In the past 40 years, China has taken more than 850 million citizens out of extreme poverty.
This chart shows the remarkable progress of 15 countries on cutting extreme poverty,
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