By Our World in Data To track progress towards ending extreme poverty, the United Nations relies on World Bank estimates of the number of people living below a poverty threshold called the ...

A new report by the World Bank and UNICEF has revealed that despite global progress in reducing extreme child poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa has seen no improvement in the past decade, with more than ...

UNICEF study finds that in 2024, 412 million children, 19.2% of the global child population still lived in extreme poverty, ...

A World Bank and UNICEF report has revealed that despite global progress in reducing extreme child poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa has ...

Five years away from the 2030 deadline, none of the global gender equality targets are on track. From poverty to conflict, the setbacks are staggering.According to a new UN report launched on Monday, ...

Around the world, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty and 1.1 billion people are still living in multidimensional poverty. As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, efforts ...

Despite declines in extreme child poverty, nearly 85 per cent of South Asian children live below USD 8.30/day, indicating ...

Investing in classrooms, teachers, and learning materials is one of the most cost-effective ways to promote peace and ...

In a striking announcement this April, the World Bank claimed that India has successfully lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty over the decade spanning 2011-12 to 2022-23. According to its ...

As extreme weather events become more frequent and the impacts of climate change become stronger, countries around the world ...

Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in economies that have been blighted by armed conflict, which has become more common over the course of this century, the World Bank said Friday. In a ...

Whatever the issue is, when people of goodwill and people of faith understand the needs around the world, they have always ...