Today, almost 700 million people (8.5 percent of the global population) live in extreme poverty - on less than $2. ... which can further hinder prospects for inclusive growth and poverty reduction ...

Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1.25 a day The target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half was met five years ahead of the 2015 deadline.

Extreme poverty is set to rise this year for the first time in more than two decades ... but the rate of reduction over that period was less than half a percentage point a year.

Of those living in poverty, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than US $1.25 a day. They lack access to proper nutrition, clean drinking water, and adequate health ...

The World Bank Group aims to end extreme poverty in the world ... By implication, all trend graphs with a break in the series represent non-comparable data displayed on the same figure over time.

“These new datasets are not reflected in the report, since the necessary analysis could not be completed in time ... global extreme poverty was projected to decline significantly over the ...