In 2019 there were about 648 million people living in extreme poverty, subsisting on the equivalent of $2.15 per day or less. Those 648 million people made up 8.4% of world population — representing an improvement over 1990, when 35.9% of people lived on that little.

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Human ingenuity, not magic, reduced extreme poverty across the globe from 90 percent to less than 9 percent. To summarize, extreme poverty completely disappeared from Western Europe and North America, and it is now in retreat elsewhere. Today it can be said that absolute poverty is, for the first time in human history, no longer a global problem.

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