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At IDA21 in South Korea, world leaders secured $100B to tackle global challenges.

Plus de 700 millions de personnes dans le monde vivent avec moins de deux euros par jour. En trente ans, la part de la population extrêmement pauvre a été divisée par quatre. Mais, depuis 2017, le chi...

To track progress towards ending extreme poverty, the United Nations relies on World Bank estimates of the number of people living below a poverty threshold called the “International Poverty Line” (IPL), Our World in Data (OWID) reports. In June 2025,...

When the Chief Minister of India’s Kerala state, Pinarayi Vijayan, said on November 1, 2025, that the state had eliminated extreme poverty, it surprised many. The announcement coincided with another in the U.S., where a prolonged government shutdown left one...

As inequality deepens in countries across the globe, the Indian state of Kerala has emerged as a beacon of hope. By November 2025, Kerala is set to become India’s first state to entirely eradicate extreme poverty. In a region too...

Advocates for Ontario Disability Support Payments (ODSP) are speaking out over fears that a new federal benefit for those on disability will lead to a claw back of funds by the Ontario government.

Nearly 90 per cent of those children are in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, but even in high-income countries, 23 per cent live with far less income than their peers. “It doesn’t have to be this way,” UNICEF executive director...

This milestone underscores the state's unwavering commitment to inclusive growth, with over 73,000 meticulously crafted micro-plans ensuring no one is left behind. Through strict monitoring and community-driven initiatives, Kerala has lifted thousands from the clutches of deprivation, proving that targeted...

South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. The country’s per-capita expenditure Gini coefficient, a measure of how spending from income is distributed, stands at 0.65. This puts it among countries with the most unequal distribution...

At a landfill in northern India, humanitarian photographer and artist Lisa Kristine saw adults and children alike working in dangerous conditions.

More than 824 million people, about one in ten worldwide, were living in extreme poverty in 2024. The World Bank updated these global and regional poverty estimates in September 2026, on the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP). The release provides estimates through 2024 and nowcasts for 2025 and 2026 (more details here). Extreme poverty is defined as living on less than $3.00 per person per day in 2021 purchasing power parity terms. Global extreme poverty is projected to decline marginally from 10.1 percent in 2024 to 9.8 percent in 2026. The 2024 estimate is for the latest year with sufficient data coverage. The 2025 and 2026 nowcasts are based on national accounts projections from the June 2026 Global Economic Prospects, the latest currently available. Survey coverage is sufficient across all regions in 2022–2024. Coverage was insufficient in the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2021. In Eastern and Southern Africa, the addition of Uganda’s 2024 survey data brings 2024 population coverage above the required threshold. What changed in this release? Compared with the March 2026 PIP vintage, the global poverty rate has been revised downward by 0.3 percentage points (22.5 million people), from about 10.4 percent (846.8 million...

The Kerala government’s mission to eliminate extreme poverty achieved a major milestone on Saturday, with Kottayam becoming the first district in the State to be officially declared free of extreme poverty. Minister for Local Self-Governments M.B. Rajesh made the announcement...

Three out of four countries are expected to have had a decline in poverty between 2021 and 2024. That headline hides significant variation, but it signals that a broad recovery took hold after the pandemic-era reversals. Nearly all countries in...