India has recorded a sharp decline in poverty over the last decade, the World Bank stated this in its latest report “Poverty & Equity Brief,” showing that extreme poverty fell to 2.3% in 2022–23, down ...

Around 1 in 5 children today are living in extreme poverty, according to new World Bank-UNICEF research. In 2024, an estimated 412 million children aged 17 or younger were residing in households ...

The core mission of the World Bank is a world free of poverty on a livable planet. Measuring poverty on a regular basis using timely and relevant data is critical to tracking progress toward this goal ...

The Presidency has disputed the latest economic report by Nigeria’s biggest multilateral lender, the World Bank, which estimated that 139 million citizens were living in poverty, describing the figure ...