How well are we reducing poverty?
There are good news and sad news.
The good news is that we are really reducing poverty. Fewer and fewer people live for 1,90 dollars a day, fewer and fewer experience hunger, fewer and fewer experience struggle to get water.
The sad news is the realization that behind nice world trends there are still countries where one-third of the total population are poor, experience hunger and struggle to get water. And even worse – while over 40% of people in low-income countries don’t have access to BASIC drinking water service, 73% don’t have access to SAFE drinking water service.
But we’re reducing. There is still much to achieve and let’s hope for the best.
What:
Very poor people = Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population),
Hungry people = Prevalence of undernourishment (% of population),
People not having water = People not using at least basic drinking water services (% of population)
When: Improvements by income class are shown between 2000 and 2017 with possible deviations a year or two for different category combinations.
Where: Total world + the world divided into 4 income groups by the World Bank.
Source: WB