General Article Chart of the day: these countries have seen the biggest falls in extreme poverty

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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 wo...

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