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Maybe they think that a huge part of humanity is destined to live in extreme poverty forever.","Source: World Bank and Gapminder estimates","Since June 2025, extreme poverty is defined as living on less than $3 USD per day. It had previously been $2.15. Estimates of extreme poverty are never exact, because the settings where extreme poverty exists don’t allow for exact measures. The data needed to estimate the extreme poverty rate is also lagging a few years. Read more [here](https:\u002F\u002Fgapm.io\u002Fdoc_epovr), and check our [calculations](https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.google.com\u002Fspreadsheets\u002Fd\u002F1bNi-ot52w2mnzms6-j1-fyTQ0SKoh5w4P9ClpzMRD4c\u002Fedit?pli=1&gid=1045671135#gid=1045671135), as well as [World Bank](https:\u002F\u002Fblogs.worldbank.org\u002Fopendata\u002Fapril-2022-global-poverty-update-world-bank). Despite that unreliability, the trends are still clear and our “correct” answer is still far closer to being right than the other options, which we deliberately make very different.\n\n[1]  [Extreme Poverty Rate](https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.google.com\u002Fspreadsheets\u002Fd\u002F1bNi-ot52w2mnzms6-j1-fyTQ0SKoh5w4P9ClpzMRD4c\u002Fedit?pli=1&gid=1045671135#gid=1045671135)  ","Back in 2005, 28% of people lived in extreme poverty. That fell to 10% by 2025. Even though Coronavirus set progress back, it didn’t change the fact that life has continually improved for most people over the decades.\n\n### Why is it a problem that people are wrong about this?\nIf they have missed the historic decline in extreme poverty, they might assume the world stands still and countries that were poor will always be poor. \n\n### Why are people wrong about this?\nGradual change can be hard to follow, and many of us carry around outdated views based on what we learned in school or stereotypes we see in films, books and in the news.\n\n### Can I trust this fact?\nYes, but it is important to understand what is being measured and the uncertainty around the numbers. As of June 2025, extreme poverty was defined as living on less than $3 USD per day. It had previously been set at  Estimates of extreme poverty are never exact, because the settings where extreme poverty exists don’t allow for exact measures. The data needed to estimate the extreme poverty rate is also lagging a few years. Check [our calculations](https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.google.com\u002Fspreadsheets\u002Fd\u002F1bNi-ot52w2mnzms6-j1-fyTQ0SKoh5w4P9ClpzMRD4c\u002Fedit?pli=1&gid=1045671135#gid=1045671135), as well as [World Bank](https:\u002F\u002Fblogs.worldbank.org\u002Fopendata\u002Fapril-2022-global-poverty-update-world-bank). Despite that unreliability, the trends are still clear and our “correct” answer is still far closer to being right than the other options, which we deliberately make very different.\n\n### What is extreme poverty?\nIt is living on less than $3 a day. It means having too little money to meet the basic needs that most of us take for granted, such as food, water, electricity and basic healthcare.\n\n### Where do the extremely poor live?\nRoughly half of them live in Africa and half in Asia. You can [see their homes on Dollar Street.](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Fdollar-street?max=100)\n\n### Where can I learn more?\nYou can see how countries moved out of poverty [here](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Ftools\u002F#$chart-type=bubbles&url=v1)\nYou can visit homes and see what life is like for the extremely poor on [Dollar Street](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Fdollar-street)\nRead more about extreme poverty [at Our World In Data.](https:\u002F\u002Fourworldindata.org\u002Fpoverty#key-insights-on-poverty)   ","A historic drop in the poverty rate!","When you think that extreme poverty has increased, you may think a huge part of humanity is destined to live in extreme poverty forever."]