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20 wrz 2024 · In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused global extreme poverty to rise by 0.85 percentage points, reaching 9.7 percent (Figure 1). This surge in extreme poverty was largely driven by South Asia, where extreme poverty increased by 2.4 percentage points, and by 1.27 percentage points in Sub-Saharan Africa in the same year.
20 wrz 2023 · In South Asia, extreme poverty increased by 2.5 percentage points in 2020. However, South Asia experienced a recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, with poverty reducing from 13.1% to 10.9%, while Latin America and the Caribbean experienced an uptick in extreme poverty.
2 sie 2023 · In 1990, fifty-three percent of the world’s population living in extreme poverty were in East Asia alone and 14 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa, behind East Asia and South Asia. In 2019, only about 4 percent of the world’s population in extreme poverty lived in East Asia.
According to the Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report (2018), the number of extreme poor in South Asia dropped to 216 million people in 2015, compared to half a billion in 1990, and Nigeria may already have overtaken India as the country with the most extreme poor in the world.
15 mar 2022 · Almost two-thirds of the people who fell or remained in extreme poverty globally due to the pandemic live in South Asia. School closures have intensified learning poverty for students across the region and the average years of schooling in South Asia is expected to fall by between 0.3 to 0.5 years.
Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have the highest and second-highest number and proportion of the world’s extreme poor, respectively, with 50.7% and 33.4% of the world’s extreme poor living in these two regions.
For example, the rate of extreme poverty, as measured by the international poverty line of $2.15, increases by 1.9 percentage points to 10.5% for South Asia and by 0.5 percentage points to 35.4% for Sub-Saharan Africa. Globally, extreme poverty in 2019 is estimated to increase from 8.5% to 9%, representing 41 million more people
