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According to the report updated by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), more than 1 billion people in the world, more than half of them children, live in acute poverty. While 584 million people under the age of 18 live in extreme poverty, the rate of those suffering from extreme poverty was determined to be 13.5 per cent in adults and 27.9 percent in children.
The latest update of the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (GMPI), jointly prepared by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) of Oxford University, was published.
The report, which includes original statistical research on multidimensional poverty covering 112 countries and 6.3 billion people, as well as a detailed analysis of the relationship between conflict and poverty, also includes new research data from 20 countries.
1.1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty!
The updated MDGYE report includes in-depth analyses of poverty in conflict settings, as well as detailed information on the lives of poor people and trends in poverty reduction around the world:
More than half of the 1.1 billion poor people are children under 18 (584 million). Globally, 13.5 per cent of adults live in poverty, compared to 27.9 percent of children.
83.2 per cent of the world’s poorest people live in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. India, with a population of 1.4 billion, has the highest number of extremely poor people with 236 million, followed by Pakistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with almost half of the world’s 1.1 billion poor people.
