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Convince yourself that things can be both better and bad.","What share of the population in high-income countr","What share of the population in high-income countries (like Germany and the USA) live in extreme poverty (with less than $3\u002Fday)?","What share of people in high-income countries (eg. Germany and the USA) live in extreme poverty (with less than $3\u002Fday)?",[138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152,153,154,155,156,157],"swe 0.733028593765909","nor 0.789128660159712","fin 0.70841928719084","dnk 0.7926176536279861","gbr 0.8127","phl 0.72","nga 0.73","pak 0.66","ind 0.58","zaf 0.71","mar 0.68","mys 0.63","esp 0.82","rus 0.64","mex 0.8","jpn 0.75","deu 0.82","fra 0.89","bra 0.58","usa 0.74",[159,160,161,162,163,164,165,166,167,168,169,170,171,172,173,174,175,176,177,178],"gbr 0.42","usa 0.36","bra 0.23","fra 0.33","deu 0.39","jpn 0.37","mex 0.44","rus 0.27","esp 0.43","swe 0.19","mys 0.28","mar 0.32","dnk 0.26","fin 0.21","nor 0.26","zaf 0.28","ind 0.26","pak 0.26","nga 0.29","phl 0.39","Less than 1% of people in high-income countries live in extreme poverty, with less than $3\u002Fday.","Many think the poor in rich countries are much poorer than they actually are. Their suffering is undefendable, but almost no poor people in rich countries have to sleep on mud floors with their starving children.","Many think the poor in rich countries are much poorer than they actually are. The poverty they see in rich countries is so undefendable that they probably assume it’s the worst kind of poverty.","Source: World Bank","The World Bank[1] estimates that in 2023 roughly 0.6% of all people in high-income countries lived on less than $3 a day. The dollar level is adjusted for differences in prices and costs of living, by using the Purchasing Power Parity of 2021 international dollars.\nThe group called high-income countries in 2023 were those who had a gross national income (GNI) per capita above $14,005 or more, calculated using the World Bank Atlas method[2]. Around 85 countries from around the world are in this category, including most countries in Europe.\nThe incomes of people in different high-income countries are made comparable in the Luxembourg Income Study database[3].\nPlease note that this question asks about the international extreme poverty rate, which uses an absolute poverty line of 3 $\u002Fday. This is different from the national poverty lines which vary across countries and are used to determine who is eligible for social welfare programs in each country. In many high-income countries the national poverty lines are around 20 times higher than the international line of extreme poverty[4].\n\n[1]  [World Bank Povcal](https:\u002F\u002Fdata.worldbank.org\u002Findicator\u002FSI.POV.DDAY?locations=XD-XM-XT-XN-1W)  \n[2]  [World Bank income groups](https:\u002F\u002Fdatahelpdesk.worldbank.org\u002Fknowledgebase\u002Farticles\u002F906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups)  \n[3]  [Luxembourg Income Study database](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.lisdatacenter.org\u002Four-data\u002Flis-database\u002F)  \n[4]  [A richer array of international poverty lines, the World Bank, FRANCISCO FERREIRA & CAROLINA SÁNCHEZ-PÁRAMO, OCTOBER 13, 2017](http:\u002F\u002Fblogs.worldbank.org\u002Fdevelopmenttalk\u002Fricher-array-international-poverty-lines)  ","Being poor in rich countries is a terrible experience that too many families have to deal with on a daily basis. They suffer from exclusion and lack opportunities that others around them have. The solution to their suffering is often within reach of the country they live in if only resources and opportunities were more fairly shared.\n\nThe definitions of poverty in high-income countries are often used to determine who has the right to welfare programs. The definitions of poverty are different in different countries but they are often in the range of $10 to $30 per person per day. \n\nThe definition of extreme poverty does not vary between countries. It’s always less than $3 a day. Today, less than 10% of the world’s population live in extreme poverty, which in reality means they often don’t have enough food, water, electricity, housing and healthcare. Roughly half of them live in middle-income countries, and the rest live in low-income countries. Almost none of them live in high-income countries.\n\nTo see life on different incomes all over the World, check out  [Dollar Street.](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Fdollar-street\u002F) \n\n### Why is it a problem that people are wrong about this?\nIt shows that people don’t know just how poor people in extreme poverty really are. These people are not just poor, they can’t afford enough to eat and don’t have many other basics the rest of us take for granted. When we think their numbers are so huge, we think it is not possible to help them all.\n\nPoverty in high-income countries is real and people suffer, but it is different. If they have the right policies in place, high-income countries can solve issues with exclusion and inequality themselves. For those in extreme poverty, their countries often have bigger structural problems that need to be fixed.\n\n### Why are people wrong about this?\nThey see people who are very poor even in the richest countries and think they meet the criteria of extreme poverty. It probably comes from the wish to not trivialize suffering, but it is not factual.\n\n### Can I trust this fact?\nYes, but it is important to understand what both extreme poverty and high-income countries actually are.\n\nThe World Bank estimates that in 2023 roughly 0.6% of all people in high-income countries lived on less than $3 a day (extreme poverty). The dollar level is adjusted for differences in prices and costs of living, by using the Purchasing Power Parity of 2021 international dollars.\n\nThe group called high-income countries are those in 2023 who had a gross national income (GNI) per capita above $14,005, calculated using the World Bank Atlas method. Around 85 countries from around the world are in this category, including most countries in Europe. The incomes of people in different high-income countries are made comparable in the Luxembourg Income Study database.\n\nPlease note that this question asks about the international extreme poverty rate, which uses an absolute poverty line of $3 per day. This is different from the national poverty lines which vary across countries and are used to determine who is eligible for social welfare programs in each country. In many high-income countries the national poverty lines are around 20 times higher than the international line of extreme poverty.\n","Extremely few are extremely poor in rich countries"]