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This means that anyone living on less than $2.15 a day is considered to be living in extreme poverty. About 692 million people globally were in this situation in 2024. [8] The second table lists countries by the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line—the poverty line deemed appropriate for a country by its ...
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Bolivia was one of the poorest countries in South America, but between 2006 and 2014, GDP per capita doubled and the extreme poverty rate declined from 38 to 18%. [21] This represents a great improvement in comparison to the situation by 2005, diminishing poverty from 59.6% to 38.6% in a decade. [22]
In 2015, Venezuela had over 100% inflation—the highest in the world and the highest in the country's history at that time. [36] According to independent sources, the rate increased to 80,000% at the end of 2018 [37] with Venezuela spiraling into hyperinflation [38] while the poverty rate was nearly 90 percent of the population. [39]
Venezuela's attorney general said in a statement on Monday that 533 people arrested for taking part in post-election protests have been freed. Venezuela's government said more than 2,000 people ...
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The Human Poverty Index (HPI) was an indication of the poverty of community in a country, developed by the United Nations to complement the Human Development Index (HDI) and was first reported as part of the Human Development Report in 1997.