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What is the share today?","In 1980, roughly 40% of the world's people lived in extreme poverty, with less than $2 per day. What is the share today?",[99,100],"uk 0.92","swe 0.8155",[102,103],"uk 0.3260","swe 0.3301","Today, around 10% of the world’s population live in extreme poverty.\n\n\u003Chttps:\u002F\u002Fvimeo.com\u002F881616253>","During the past 40 years, the drop in the extreme poverty rate was the fastest ever. Very few noticed. Probably because global inequality became wider than ever.","It’s difficult to accept that the extreme poverty rate declined faster than ever, while global inequalities at the same time became wider than ever.","Sources: World Bank & Gapminder","Extreme poverty is defined as living on less than $3 USD per day (In June 2025 it increased from $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\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Fdata\u002Fdocumentation\u002Fepovrate\u002F), and check our [calculations](https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.google.com\u002Fspreadsheets\u002Fd\u002F10Bc_jKsB2roEUVEigYcD7fCtkJNTJSHjoaFaecO_Meg\u002Fedit#gid=501532268), as well as [World Bank](http:\u002F\u002Firesearch.worldbank.org\u002FPovcalNet\u002FpovDuplicateWB.aspx). 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]  [World Bank and Gapminder estimates](https:\u002F\u002Fdocs.google.com\u002Fspreadsheets\u002Fd\u002F1bNi-ot52w2mnzms6-j1-fyTQ0SKoh5w4P9ClpzMRD4c\u002Fedit?pli=1&gid=1045671135#gid=1045671135)  \n\n[2]  [World Bank Open Data time trend of extreme poverty](https:\u002F\u002Fdata.worldbank.org\u002Findicator\u002FSI.POV.DDAY)\n\n[3]  [Extreme Poverty, Our World In Data](https:\u002F\u002Fourworldindata.org\u002Fpoverty#explore-data-on-poverty) ","Worldwide, extreme poverty has declined steadily since the 1980s, but the fact that hundreds of millions of people still have to survive on less than $3 a day means we aren’t in the streets celebrating this as a complete success.\n\n### What has happened over time?\nThe share of people in the world living in extreme poverty has decreased steadily over the last 40 years. Huge countries like China, India and Nigeria became middle-income countries in this time. But that change is something that happens over years rather than days or weeks, so it gets little attention from the news media. \n\n### What is extreme poverty?\nIt is living on less than $3 a day. It means having too little money to meet the basic needs that most of us take for granted, such as food, water, electricity and basic healthcare. \n\n### Where do the extremely poor live?\nRoughly half of them live in Africa and half in Asia. You can see their homes on [Dollar Street](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Fdollar-street\u002F?max=66).\n\n### Did the Corona pandemic impact the share of extremely poor? \nThe Corona pandemic pushed around 100 million more people into extreme poverty, meaning the share of people living in extreme poverty went up for the first time in decades. \n\nIt was an urgent crisis that required action to prevent millions more people falling into extreme poverty and reversing decades of improvements.\n\nThose who hadn’t realized that extreme poverty had long been in decline before the Corona pandemic can’t realize that the current increase is the first in decades.\n\n### Where can I learn more?\nYou can see how countries moved out of poverty [here](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Ftools\u002F#$state$time$value=2015;&marker$axis_y$which=extreme_poverty_percent_people_below_190_a_day&domainMin:null&domainMax:null&zoomedMin:null&zoomedMax:null&spaceRef:null;;;&chart-type=bubbles) \n\nYou can visit homes and see what life is like for the extremely poor in [Dollar Street](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Fdollar-street\u002F?topic=homes&media=image&max=59)\n\nRead more about extreme poverty at [Our World In Data](https:\u002F\u002Fourworldindata.org\u002Fextreme-poverty#:~:text=As%20we%20can%20see%2C%20globally,million%20every%20year%20since%201990).\n","A world record, ignored","During the past 40 years, the drop in the extreme poverty rate was faster than ever before, but very few noticed. Probably because global inequality became wider than ever."]