Is Is Getting Better----Lu Gan
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According to the World Bank's definition of $1.90 a day, about 710 million people will remain in extreme poverty in 2021 (about one in 10 of the global population). More than 85 percent live in 20 countries. In the past, the vast majority of the world's population lived in conditions of extreme poverty. The proportion of the world's population living in absolute poverty has fallen from more than 80% in 1800 to less than 20% in 2015. That's up from 1.9 billion in 1990 and 1.2 billion in 2008. While there are still many people below the international poverty line, these figures represent significant progress for the international community because they show that one billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the past 15 years, the vast majority of them in China. . People living in extreme poverty are still unable to meet their most basic needs, such as health care, education, water and sanitation. The poverty rate in rural areas of the world is 17.2 perc...