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  2. Poverty in Africa - Wikipedia

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    As of 2019, 424 million people in sub-Saharan Africa were reportedly living in severe poverty. In 2022, 460 million people—an increase of 36 million in only three years—were anticipated to be living in extreme poverty as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian war .

  3. List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty

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    Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income N/A Gibraltar: Europe & Central Asia High income N/A Guinea: Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 43.7% 2018 Gambia: Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 53.4% 2020 Guinea-Bissau: Sub-Saharan Africa Low income 50.5% 2021 Equatorial Guinea: Sub-Saharan Africa Upper middle income N/A Greece

  4. List of African countries by Human Development Index

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    The table below presents the latest Human Development Index (HDI) for countries in Africa as included in the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report, released on 13 March 2024 and based on data collected in 2024. [1] As of 2024, all African UN member states are included in the report.

  5. Sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia

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    Sub-Saharan Africa or Subsahara is the area and regions of the continent of Africa ... 424 million people in sub-Saharan Africa were reportedly living in severe poverty.

  6. Poverty - Wikipedia

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    Sub-Saharan Africa has recently seen a decline, partly related to the AIDS epidemic. Graph shows the years 1950–2005. Graph shows the years 1950–2005. The effects of poverty may also be causes as listed above, thus creating a "poverty cycle" operating across multiple levels, individual, local, national and global.

  7. Social programs in sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia

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    Mali has made significant economic progress (on average 5% a year between 1994 and 2006) considering a series of adverse economic shocks (such as drought) and has made some progress on reducing poverty and poverty related indicators, yet poverty remains high at 59.2% in 2006 and as in many sub-Saharan African countries, children make up a high ...

  8. Poverty reduction - Wikipedia

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    Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, ... Most of these are located in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. [122]

  9. Extreme poverty - Wikipedia

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    In October 2017, the World Bank updated the international poverty line, a global absolute minimum, to $1.90 a day. [3] This is the equivalent of $1.00 a day in 1996 US prices, hence the widely used expression "living on less than a dollar a day". [4] The vast majority of those in extreme poverty reside in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.