More than one billion people live in acute poverty, with nearly half of them in countries experiencing conflict, according to a new United Nations report. Countries at war have higher levels of ...

In 2024, Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 16 percent of the world’s population, but 67 percent of the people living in extreme poverty. Two thirds of the world’s population in extreme poverty live in ...

Oxfam predicted in its new report that the world was on track to see at least five trillionaires within a decade.

Citing World Bank data, the group pointed to lingering poverty, saying the number of people living on less than $6.85 per day has "barely changed" since 1990. Oxfam used Forbes' "Real-Time ...

Even as incomes rose in 2023, the number of Americans living in poverty went up. More and more people are struggling to ...

According to the World Bank, from 1993 to 2017, "the number of people living in extreme poverty fell from 1.9 billion to 689 million," even while the global population grew from 5.3 to 7.5 billion.

In the United States, 42 million people live in poverty. Nearly 40% of single-mother households are impoverished, and alarmingly, 1 in 3 children raised in poverty stay impoverished through adulthood.

More than 32 per cent of people were estimated to be living below the poverty ... continues to be on the better side, the World Bank predicts that poverty will gradually drop to 18.7 per cent ...