Fifteen million Mozambicans live in extreme poverty – World Bank report

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Fifteen million Mozambicans live in extreme poverty – World Bank report

11:33 CAT | 03 Oct 2016

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A World Bank study released on Sunday 2 October reveals that 15 million Mozambicans live on less than US$1.90 a day. Mozambique has the tenth largest proportion of poor in the world, with sixty percent of the population living in extreme poverty.

The document, the first in a new series that will present data of poverty and prosperity in the world, indicates that all 10 of the countries with the highest proportion of the population living in extreme poverty are in sub-Saharan Africa.

Countries with the highest extreme poverty ratio are led by the Central African Republic, with almost 80 percent, while the list of countries with the highest absolute number of people living on less than US$1.90 per day is headed by India, with 224 million.

Although more than half the world’s poor live in sub-Saharan Africa, four of the countries with the highest number of poor are not in the region. They are India, China, Indonesia and Bangladesh.

Read the full report at

http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/poverty-and-shared-prosperity

Source: Voa Portugues