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Leveling the Playing Field - Addressing Structural Inequalities to Accelerate Poverty Reduction in Africa

December 3, 2024, Washington, DC, and Online
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Eleventh Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

July 9-11, 2025, Washington, DC
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Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet: Pathways Out of the Polycrisis

Report examines progress toward eradicating poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet, and explores pathways out of today's polycrisis.

Poverty At-A-Glance

Global poverty reduction has slowed to a near standstill, with 2020-2030 set to be a lost decade.

8.5 percent of the global population – almost 700 million people – live today on less than $2.15 per day, the extreme poverty line for low-income countries. Three-quarters of all people in extreme poverty live in Sub-Saharan Africa or in fragile and conflict-affected countries.

44 percent of the global population – around 3.5 billion people – live today on less than $6.85 per day, the poverty line relevant for upper-middle-income countries.

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Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet 2024: Pathways Out of the Polycrisis

Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024: Pathways Out of the Polycrisis

This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet, and explores potential pathways out of today's polycrisis.

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Measuring Poverty

In order to monitor progress, it is important to measure poverty regularly.
Inequality and Shared Prosperity

Promoting shared prosperity is one of the goals of the World Bank Group.

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Extreme poverty, 2015-2022

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Extreme poverty, 2015-2022

Almost 700 million people – 8.5 percent of the global population – live today on less than $2.15 per day, the extreme poverty line for low-income countries. Around 3.5 billion people – 44 percent of the global population – live on less than $6.85 per day, the poverty line more relevant for upper-middle-income countries.

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