![]() ![]() ![]() However, the update includes several country-level estimates for 2020, mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean. The regional poverty estimates included with this update stop in 2019, before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (the latest nowcasts to 2021 are available here). Estimates for Sub-Saharan Africa continue to show a decrease in the poverty headcount rate (from 38.9 to 38.3 between 20), but an increase in the number of people living in poverty, up from 420 million in 2018 to 424 million in 2019. The same is not true for East Africa, where survey coverage in 2019 is insufficient (largely due to the absence of new survey data for countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya, and Zambia). New surveys for Nigeria for 2010/11, 2012/13, and 2015/16 improve data coverage in the mid-2010s so that we are able to publish a full series for West Africa since the late-2000s (compare Figure 1 to the same figure published with the March 2021 update). Data improvements for the region are not limited to more recent years. ![]() In contrast, and thanks to improvements in data availability in West Africa, we can now add poverty estimates for Sub-Saharan Africa in 2019 (see Figure 1, where Sub-Saharan Africa is further divided into East and West Africa). It should be noted, however, that survey data for these countries is limited in recent years, giving rise to considerable uncertainty, and data coverage is insufficient to publish a 2019 regional poverty estimate. We are able to publish the new global estimate for 2018 due to new surveys added with this update which improve data coverage for low- and lower-middle-income countries (up from 48.5 to 50.7 percent).Īll regions show continued progress in poverty reduction except for the Middle East and North Africa, where fragile and conflict-affected countries drive an increase in poverty in more recent years, up to 7.1 percent in 2018. In fact, global poverty fell by 2.8 percentage points between 20 (from 12.9 percent to 10.1 percent), and by 1.5 percentage points between 20. This confirms a continued reduction in extreme poverty at the global level, although at a slower pace in more recent years, as previously noted. The global poverty rate (at the US$1.90 poverty line) in 2018 is 8.6 percent, down from 9.1 in 2017, equivalent to a decline by 28 million poor people between the two years. The April 2022 update to the newly launched Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) presents new global poverty estimates for 2018 and revises previously published estimates, as a result of newly available survey data and several changes to the underlying data (see this document for more details). ![]()
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