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with lowest economic class based on the World Bank's international poverty lines of $2.15 and $3.65 a day Country Region World Bank Income group (2024) Extremely poor: Less than $2.15 a day Moderately poor: $2.15 to less than $3.65 a day Not extremely or moderately poor: $3.65 or above a day Afghanistan: South Asia Low income
Despite being the second-largest country in Africa, with an approximate area of 2.3 million square kilometres (890,000 sq mi), and being endowed with rich natural resources, the DRC is the second-poorest country in the world. [1] The average annual income is only $449 US dollars. [2]
"Inside the World Bank's new inequality indicator: The number of countries with high inequality". World Bank. {}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ; Global Peace Index Map of Gini data for 2007–2010; Shadow economies all over the world : new estimates for 162 countries from 1999 to 2007. Friedrich Schneider, Andreas Buehn, Claudio E ...
By David Lawder. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The world's 26 poorest countries, home to 40% of the most poverty-stricken people, are more in debt than at any time since 2006 and increasingly vulnerable ...
African and Middle Eastern countries ravaged by war and famine remain the poorest in the world, according to new published data. RANKED: The 28 poorest countries in the world — where people live ...
The first country to graduate from LDC status was Botswana in 1994. The second country was Cape Verde in 2007. [28] Maldives graduated to developing country status at the beginning of 2011, Samoa in 2014, [6] [29] Equatorial Guinea in 2017, [30] Vanuatu in December 2020, [31] Bhutan in December 2023, [32] and São Tomé and Príncipe in ...
Markets across the world may have risen to record highs in 2013's run-up, but the great gains made by investors, companies, and leading economies haven't extended around the entire globe. Many ...
This is a list of countries by nominal GDP per capita. GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living ; [ 1 ] [ 2 ] however, this is inaccurate because GDP per capita is not a measure of personal income .