The World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity series provides the latest estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity. The 2022 edition provides the first comprehensive look at the ...

The 40,9% is equivalent to some 18 million people. “There is greater general poverty. We are all a little poorer – we already were last year – and now with greater inequality,” said UCA ...

Tackling poverty is often difficult and expensive, which may explain Labour’s caution. What hope it can offer Britain’s poorest comes more in the promise of general economic growth than in ...

$2.15 per person per day for extreme poverty and $6.85 per person per day for general poverty. In 2023, the proportion of the population living in extreme poverty fell to 4.4 percent, down from 6. ...

The energy price crisis caused the sharpest increase in UK absolute poverty in 30 years, new figures show. Steep prices rises, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, meant hundreds of thousands ...

4% of extreme poverty and 17% of “general” poverty. These data contrast with those offered by the Living Conditions Survey (Encovi) in July 2020, which placed extreme poverty at 79.3% (more ...