In 2013, there were almost 1.1 billion fewer extremely poor people in the world than in 1990. On an average about 50 million people have escaped poverty each year between 1990 and 2013, equivalent to the Population of Colombia or the Republic of Korea.
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Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016
1 in 10 people in the world live under $1.90 a day, and half of the extreme poor live in Sub-Saharan Africa.
