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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."
South Sudan: 0.381 54 193 ... List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty; Poverty in Africa; References Notes. 1. ...
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 ...
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
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.
Poverty in Africa is the lack of provision to satisfy the basic human needs of certain people in Africa. African nations typically fall toward the bottom of any list measuring small size economic activity, such as income per capita or GDP per capita, despite a wealth of natural resources.
Poverty – adjustable criterion based on Gross national income (GNI) per capita averaged over three years. As of 2018, a country must have GNI per capita less than US$1,025 to be included on the list, and over $1,230 to graduate from it.
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 ]