2024 Poverty Guidelines Chart Pandemic. Around 3.5 billion people (44 percent of the global population) remain poor by a standard that is more. Global poverty estimates were updated today on the poverty and inequality platform (pip).

The data, released by the united nations development programme (undp) and the oxford poverty and human development initiative (ophi), shows that 65 out of 75. We project a decrease in extreme poverty of 2.9% from 2020 to 2021, which is nearly identical to the annual declines in poverty observed before the pandemic spread (2.3%.