FROM
![]()
Click link below picture
.
Less than 10 percent of the world’s population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015, the World Bank forecast on Sunday.
The Washington-based institution’s latest projections expect the number of people who survive on $1.90 a day to drop from 12.8 percent of the human population in 2012 to 9.6 percent this year. That means 702 million people still struggle to survive.
But that’s a stunning decline from the numbers reported over the last 25 years. According to the World Bank, 37.1 percent of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty in 1990. In 2015, that number is estimated to drop to 9.6 percent.
.
Ending Extreme Poverty and Sharing Prosperity: A Snapshot
.
.
Click link below for story, video and slideshow:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/global-poverty-world-bank_56119981e4b0af3706e12d67
.
__________________________________________