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Bookmark or Share- Ranked: The 25 Poorest Countries by GDP per Capita - Visual CapitalistThe Briefing. Global GDP per capita continues to grow every year, and is projected to sit at $13,920 for 2023 (current prices) There are as many as 123 countries whose per capita GDP is below the global average. Burundi is the poorest country in the world with a per capita GDP of about $308. Ranked: Which Are the World’s Poorest Countries?
- Poorest States 2024 - World Population ReviewMississippi is the poorest U.S. state, with 18.8% of its residents living in poverty. The state also has the highest child poverty rate, with 27.9% of its under-18 population meeting federal poverty guidelines. Fifteen percent of residents are food insecure. The median household income in the state is $44,966, the lowest in the country.
- Poverty - Our World in DataThe poorest in the world are often undernourished, without access to basic services such as electricity and safe drinking water; they have less access to education, and suffer from much poorer health. In order to make progress against such poverty in the future, we need to understand poverty around the world today and how it has changed.
- Poverty Overview: Development news, research, data | World BankAround 700 million people live on less than $2.15 per day, the extreme poverty line. Extreme poverty remains concentrated in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, fragile and conflict-affected areas, and rural areas. After decades of progress, the pace of global poverty reduction began to slow by 2015, in tandem with subdued economic growth.
- September 2020 global poverty update from the World Bank: New annual ...It is estimated that 9.2% of the world population (689 million people) lived below the International Poverty Line (IPL) in 2017. More than 60% of the world’s poorest people live in Sub-Saharan Africa, which at 41% has the highest regional poverty rate.
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