Maps & Data
Percentage of Population Living under $2 A Day in 2004
Some 2.6 billion people live on less than $2 per day, with three quarters of them in rural areas.
Status of Land Tenure and Property Rights, 2005
Strong property rights have been found to be associated with increased economic growth.
Since 1990, poverty analysts have been using the $1 per day standard as the international poverty line for extreme poverty.
Although the world’s population is steadily urbanizing, the great majority of the world’s poor still live in rural areas.
The reality of global poverty is that it is rural and it is persistent: three-quarters of the 2.6 billion people living on less than $2 per day—almost 2 billion—live in rural areas; that number is virtually unchanged in 20 years.
The reality of global poverty is that it is rural and it is persistent: three-quarters of the 2.6 billion people living on less than $2 per day—almost 2 billion—live in rural areas; that number is virtually unchanged in 20 years.
The reality of global poverty is that it is rural and it is persistent: three-quarters of the 2.6 billion people living on less than $2 per day—almost 2 billion—live in rural areas; that number is virtually unchanged in 20 years.
The reality of global poverty is that it is rural and it is persistent: three-quarters of the 2.6 billion people living on less than $2 per day—almost 2 billion—live in rural areas; that number is virtually unchanged in 20 years.
The bulk of the world's wealth exists not as natural capital or physical capital (such as buildings, roads, or goods) but as human, social, and institutional capital.