[MrYellowP]

It's actually 850 million people.

"China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 0.7 percent in 2015"

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China

I felt like 250 million people difference in accuracy was worth pointing out, but of course this also covers "600 million in the last decades".

[cmehdy]

Thanks for the more precise information. It's indeed very much worth pointing it out when a "slight difference in accuracy" in my statement is a population equivalent to 80%+ of the US(!).

[shynrou]

I wouldn't dare to call some one with an income of 60$ per month not poor...

[MrYellowP]

It's a misleading way of measuring poverty. In fact, it is irrelevant how many units of currency you earn, as long as your units of currency cover your basic needs plus a bit.

Sixty units of currency are a lot of money when rent costs you ten and bread costs you one.

In Bulgaria, most things are half the price. Food and rent are damn cheap for someone who earns money in euros.

They earn half as many units of currency compared to people where I live. That's an amount of currency with which I could never live where I live now, but there it would last.