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According to World Bank, "Poverty headcount ratio at a defined value a day is the percentage of the population living on less than that value a day at 2017 purchasing power adjusted prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions."
In September 2022 South Sudan and Djibouti signed an agreement to lay fibre optic cable from Djibouti to South Sudan’s capital, Juba, via Ethiopia. [29] In March 2015, South Sudan's minister for telecommunications and postal services revealed plans for the government to lay 1,600 kilometers of fiber-optic cable across the country within two ...
The federal government measures poverty by comparing a household's income to a set poverty threshold or minimum amount of income needed to cover basic needs. While some states have different...
Poverty Rate based on Household Income, 2005 . State Health Facts. December 14, 2007. Geographic Adjustments of Supplemental Poverty Measure Thresholds: Using the American Community Survey Five-Year Data on Housing Costs Accessed November 27, 2012. The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure Accessed June 5, 2014.
For example, a low-income state like Mississippi — where the median income for an individual is the lowest in the country at $47,446 — also has the highest rate of persistent poverty at 24.4% ...
The demographic profile of the poverty population differs under the SPM and OPM measures. Comparatively, the poverty rate of children is lower in terms of SPM and a higher poverty rate is conducted among the elderly (older than 65). The poverty rate of the working-age population fluctuates from year to year between the two poverty measures.
South Sudan has the 6th highest rate of child marriage in the world. [1] In 2008, the South Sudan census approximated that 2 in 5 girls marry before they reach the age of 18. [ 5 ] As of 2010, 52% of South Sudanese girls are married by the age of 18 and 9% are married by 15. [ 6 ]
Rank Region HDI (2022) Low human development 1 Central Equatoria 0.459 2 Western Equatoria 0.426 3 Upper Nile: 0.422 4 Western Bahr el Ghazal 0.412 – South Sudan 0.381