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by wu-ikkyu
3078 days ago
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What do you mean by "absolute poverty"? While the proportion of people living in poverty may have been getting lower, the absolute number of people living in poverty has never been higher. 3 billion people live in poverty. This is the same as the total global population in 1960. https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-global-p... |
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A condition characterised by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services.
The percentage of people at this level has been falling for a long time and is now less than 10% of the global population, nowhere near 3 billion.