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• Global Extreme Poverty
• 12 key metrics to understand the state of the world
• As the world’s poorest economies are stagnating, half a billion are expected to be in extreme poverty in 2030
• How do we know the history of extreme poverty?
• No matter what extreme poverty line you choose, the share of people below that poverty line has declined globally
• Extreme poverty is falling: How is poverty changing for higher poverty lines?

Charts

• Comparison of extreme poverty estimates, Povcal vs Bradshaw & Mayhew (2011)
• Data deprivation: number of poverty surveys per decade available via the World Bank
• Disposable household income: Income cutoff to the poorest decile vs mean income
• Distribution of population between different poverty thresholdsPovcal data
• Extreme poverty rate vs. poverty gap index
• GDP per capitaWorld Bank
• GDP per capita in international and market dollars
• How does the international poverty line compare to multidimensional poverty?
• MDG1.A: Share of population in extreme poverty (less than $1.25 per day)
• National poverty lines vs. GDP per capita
• Population living in extreme poverty
• Poverty gap index at 1.90 int.-$ per day
• Poverty headcount ratio (Povcal vs. WDI)
• Poverty vs. Life expectancy
• Poverty vs. educational attainment
• Projected number of people in extreme poverty, by regionCrespo-Cuaresma et al. (with projections)
• Projected share of the population in extreme poverty
• Reconstruction of historical global extreme poverty rates
• Share in poverty relative to different poverty thresholds
• Share living on less than 3.20 int.-$ per day
• Share of global population living in extreme poverty including and excluding China
• Share of people living in extreme povertyEuropean countries (Bradshaw and Mayhew, 2011)
• Share of population in extreme poverty
• Share of population living in multidimensional poverty
• Share of population living with less than 1.90$ and 3.20$ per day
• The global poverty gap
• The number of people living in extreme poverty
• The poverty gap
• The share of people living in extreme poverty vs GDP per capita
• Total population living in extreme poverty by world region
• World population living in extreme povertyWorld Bank & Bourguignon and Morrisson