What is global poverty

World/Global Poverty is a Disaster

Billions of people around the world live in extreme poverty. Nearly 10 percent of the world's population. That's almost 1 billion people living below the World Bank poverty line of $1.90 per day ... They are shunned by the world economy. They live lives abundant in scarcity.

The World Bank defined extreme poverty as people living on $1 or less a day. Around 1.85 billion people, or 36 percent of the world's population, lived in extreme poverty. Nearly half the population in developing countries lived on less than $1.25 a day.