{"id":436,"date":"2007-04-16T15:47:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T14:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=436"},"modified":"2007-04-16T15:47:20","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T14:47:20","slug":"what-is-the-scale-of-world-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"What is the scale of world poverty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global poverty rates continued to fall in the first four years of the 21st century according to <a href=\"http:\/\/web.worldbank.org\/WBSITE\/EXTERNAL\/NEWS\/0,,contentMDK:21299914~menuPK:34463~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html\">new estimates<\/a> published in the &#8220;World Development Indicators 2007&#8221;, released this week by the World Bank.<br \/>\nThe proportion of people living on less than $1 a day fell to 18.4 percent in 2004, leaving an estimated 985 million people living in extreme poverty. By comparison, the total number of extreme poor was 1.25 billion in 1990. Two-dollar-a-day poverty rates are falling too, but an estimated 2.6 billion people, almost half the population of the developing world, were still living below that level in 2004.<br \/>\nAlthough this is good news, the 260M drop in the number living on less than a dollar a day is more than accounted for by the 300M taken out of extreme poverty in China. In sub&#8211;Saharan Africa, extreme poverty has actually risen by 60 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global poverty rates continued to fall in the first four years of the 21st century according to new estimates published in the &#8220;World Development Indicators 2007&#8221;, released this week by the World Bank. The proportion of people living on less than $1 a day fell to 18.4 percent in 2004, leaving an estimated 985 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}