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6 billion
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2.5 billion
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2.8 billion
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4 billion
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Detailed explanation-1: -Currently, 1 billion people worldwide live on less than one dollar a day, the threshold defined by the international community as constituting extreme poverty.
Detailed explanation-2: -Source: PRB, based on different recent estimates of the percent below poverty. World Bank estimates are given in the figure above for comparative purposes. The World Bank estimates that 41.6 percent of India’s population lives below $1.25 per day and 75.6 percent live below $2 per day.
Detailed explanation-3: -Poverty ratio, percent living on less than 1.90 USD a day For that indicator, we provide data for India from 1977 to 2019. The average value for India during that period was 32.02 percent with a minimum of 10 percent in 2019 and a maximum of 63.1 percent in 1977. The latest value from 2019 is 10 percent.
Detailed explanation-4: -This page in: 648 million people in the world, about eight percent of the global population, live in extreme poverty, which means they subsist on less than US$2.15 per day.