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As a result of the adoption of the 2017 PPPs, the global poverty lines have been revised in 2022: The international poverty line, used to define extreme global poverty, was revised to US$2.15 from US$1.90. Poverty lines for other sets of countries have also been revised upwards.
The percentage figures for citizens living below the poverty line are provided by either the CIA World Factbook (2007) or the World Bank (2012) [10] [11] [12] There is no data available for eleven European states.
In 2008 Iran government report by central statistics had recommended 9.5 around million people living below poverty line. [68] As of August 2022 the Iranian economy suffered the highest inflation in 75 years; official statistics put the poverty line at 10 million tomans ($500), while the minimum wage given in the same year has been 5 million toman.
The World Poverty Clock [1] is a tool to monitor progress against poverty globally, [2] and regionally. [3] It provides real-time poverty data across countries. [4] [5] Created by the Vienna-based NGO, World Data Lab, it was launched in Berlin at the re:publica conference in 2017, [6] [7] and is funded by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
But the fact is 37.9 million Americans, or 11.5% of the population, live in poverty, according to the U.S. Census Bureau‘s 2022 report. That’s well below the country’s highest historic ...
The share of Americans, particularly children, in poverty rose significantly last year, in large part because Congress did not renew a Covid-19 pandemic enhancement to the child tax credit ...
The table below presents the latest Human Development Index (HDI) [1] for countries in Europe as included in a United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report (released in 2020). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Previous HDI values and rankings are retroactively recalculated using the same updated data sets and current methodologies, as presented in ...
The main poverty line used in the OECD and the European Union is a relative poverty measure based on 60% of the median household income. The United States uses a poverty measure based on pre-tax income and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "economy food plan" by which 11% of Americans are living in poverty, but this is disputed.