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  • 6 March 2023

Global, regional and national trends in economic poverty

Two interactive charts let you explore global, regional and national trends in the number and proportion of people living in poverty between 1990 and 2022.

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This data tool allows you to explore poverty trends from 1990 to 2022 at global, national and regional levels.

Use these interactive charts to view changes in the number and proportion of people living in poverty around the world in recent decades. Data is disaggregated geographically and by different poverty lines. Read more about recent trends in economic poverty in our factsheet.


► Find out more about global, regional and national poverty trends in our 2023 economic poverty factsheet.


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People living in poverty by global region: 2002–2022

An interactive chart enabling you to explore regional trends in the number of people living in poverty between 2002 and 2022.

  • The drop-down menu above the chart enables you to select different poverty line thresholds to view changes in the number of people living in poverty from 2002 to 2022. To view regional data for each poverty line threshold, click on the regions listed in the chart legend and hover over the highlighted section of the chart to see specific data totals.

Source: Development Initiatives based on World Bank PIP, Mahler et al. 2022, UN World Population Prospects and IMF World Economic Outlook. Forecasts begin in 2020. Please read our methodology publication for further information.

Note: *The ‘Other high-income’ category is a result of the World Bank’s poverty estimation methodology. We have retained it to allow more accurate estimates of poverty data in countries without a recent poverty survey. For more detail, read our background and methodology note.