Less poverty than ever before

More people are coming out of poverty than ever before.

Ravallion (2016) updated with World Bank (2019)

The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than $1.90 per day. Using this metric nearly in 1890 90% of the world lived in extreme poverty now it is less than 10%.

Between 1990 and 2015 over a billion people came out of extreme poverty.