This chart shows the share of children of official primary school age who were not enrolled in primary education in 2024, by ...

This infographic from the OECD Development Assistance Committee projects which countries will be home to the world’s poorest people by 2015, and compares this to the picture in 2005. Part of their ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When summer heat comes to the Arara neighborhood in northern Rio, it lingers, baking the red brick and concrete that make up many of the buildings long after the sun has gone ...

19 October 2023 - “In our world of plenty, poverty has no place,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres stressed in his message for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. John Wilmoth, ...

The World Bank says poverty in Lebanon has tripled over the course of a decade. The percentage of people in Lebanon living below the poverty line rose from 12% in 2012 to 44% in 2022, according to a ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Shocks related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine mean the world is unlikely to meet a longstanding goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030, the World Bank ...

WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) - The number of Ukrainians living in poverty has grown by 1.8 million since 2020, bringing the total to about 29% of the population as Russia's 2022 invasion continues to ...