webofgoodnews: World poverty rate to fall below 10% for the first time For the first time ever, the
webofgoodnews:World poverty rate to fall below 10% for the first timeFor the first time ever, the number of people living in extreme poverty is set to fall to below 10% of the global population in 2015, the World Bank said.“This is the best story in the world today – these projections show us that we are the first generation in human history that can end extreme poverty,” Jim Yong Kim, World Bank’s president, said.The World Bank projects that the number of people living in poverty fell to 702 million people in 2015, or about 9.6% of the global population. That compares to 2012, when 902 million people lived below the poverty line, which was around 12.8% of the population at the time.Read moreWebofgoodnews.com - Facebook -- source link
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