Poverty: Is It Getting Better? -- Mayuko, Usa and Kana

 We believe poverty level is getting better. By poverty, we mean that poverty level in the world. We would like to introduce three graphs or charts to support this point. The first one illustrates the population living in extreme poverty in 1987 to 2013. This chart gives a comparison of extreme poverty in the past of the world. This overall impression of the poverty has fallen dramatically and improved in 2013 compared to 1987. East Asia and Pacific had the highest rate in 1987, while it had fallen to the third poverty in the world.


SHARE OF THE POPULATION LIVING IN EXTREME POVERTY, BY WORLD REGION
https://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/7272929/global-poverty-health-crime-literacy-good-news

In 1987, the poverty in East Asia and Pacific countries had rated 60 %, but in 2013, that rate had fallen to nearly 5%. The ratio of the world poverty dropped from about 35 % in 1987 to under 11 % in 2013.The second one shows people in the world living in extreme poverty in real-time. A black person who runs away from the chart is a person who escaped poverty today. A red person who runs away from the chart is a person who fell into poverty today. According to the chart, about 680,331,240 people are living in extreme poverty now. 1.0 people per second can escape from poverty now, but the targeting escape rate is 2.5 people per second, so we didn’t being able to achieve the target. I thought more people than I expected be achieving to run away from poverty when I saw this chart for the first time, but the number that 600 million is still very large.

PEOPLE IN THE WORLD LIVING IN EXTREME POVERTY
https://worldpoverty.io/headline

The third one is about the future prediction. This graph shows the prediction of the poverty level up to 2030. There is a gray line which shows a future prediction without the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of poverty level in 2030 is to reach 3 percent. However, the rates have been pushed even higher because of COVID-19. For the orange graph shows the future prediction in now situation, with COVID-19. From 2021, the poverty level started to decrease slightly. In 2021, the world poverty level was more than 9 percent, but after 2021, it has became better and predicted it will reach 7 percent in near future in 2030.
PROJECTION OF GLOBAL EXTREME POVERTY
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/projecting-global-extreme-poverty-2030-how-close-are-we-world-banks-3-goal

We hope that poverty level in the world will be better in the future. Thank you for reading.

Comments

  1. Mashiro YamashitaJune 30, 2022 at 3:10 PM

    Your blog is very good. I could understand easily your graphs. I found that COVID-19 related to poverty.

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    1. Kana ItoJune 30, 2022 at 3:28 PM

      Thank you, Mashiro! Yes, COVID-19 has an effect on poverty problem.

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    2. Usa YamagamiJune 30, 2022 at 3:31 PM

      Thank you, Mashiro! COVID-19 made the economy painful...

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    3. Mayuko NakamuraJune 30, 2022 at 3:34 PM

      Thank you for your comment. I'm glad to make you interested.

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  2. TAMONJune 30, 2022 at 3:25 PM

    It's a very interesting research for me because I have reported this problem when I was elementary school student. The fact that poverty revel is getting better makes me happy.

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    1. Kana ItoJune 30, 2022 at 3:29 PM

      I surprised at you had learned about this problem when you were an elementary school student!!

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    2. Usa YamagamiJune 30, 2022 at 3:32 PM

      Thank you, Tamon! I hope so too.

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    3. Mayuko NakamuraJune 30, 2022 at 3:35 PM

      Thank you for your comment. I didn't know that you had learned about poverty.

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  3. Ayano YoshiikeJune 30, 2022 at 3:25 PM

    I didn't know that poverty level is getting better. This is an interesting topic, thank you very much.

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    1. Kana ItoJune 30, 2022 at 3:30 PM

      Thank you, Ayano! Poverty level is a still problem, but it is getting better now.

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    2. Usa YamagamiJune 30, 2022 at 3:34 PM

      Thank you, Ayano! We hope that the poverty level continues to get better.

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    3. Mayuko NakamuraJune 30, 2022 at 3:37 PM

      Thank you for your comment. The poverty problem is one of the most important issues which we have to think...

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  4. Yugo KonnoJune 30, 2022 at 3:26 PM

    Thank you for a good report. It is good thing that absolute poverty is decreasing, but I think it's also important to reduce the huge gap between riche and poor.

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    1. Kana ItoJune 30, 2022 at 3:31 PM

      You have a nice idea, Yugo! Yes, we have to reduce the gap.

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    2. Usa YamagamiJune 30, 2022 at 3:36 PM

      Thank you, Yugo. I could a new interesting idea. World people have to think about the gap soon.

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    3. Mayuko NakamuraJune 30, 2022 at 3:38 PM

      Thank you for your comment. I'm glad to get another topic that we have to concern.

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  5. Shiho MatsuuraJune 30, 2022 at 3:37 PM

    I am happy because I knew that in overall poverty level is getting better, but this problem is the still bigger problem in developing countries.

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    1. Kana ItoJune 30, 2022 at 3:44 PM

      Thank you for your comment, Shiho! I also think it is a still huge problem in developing countries and also in developed countries.

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    2. Usa YamagamiJune 30, 2022 at 3:46 PM

      Thank you, Shiho! I think we should continue discussions about this problem.

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  6. David WoodfieldJune 30, 2022 at 3:51 PM

    Interesting graphs shared and some thoughtful interpretation. The reduction in poverty in East Asia & the Pacific was particularly dramatic, wasn't it? I would say that incredible economic growth in China is largely responsible for this change.
    Your 3rd graph clearly indicates the effect of Covid 19 on the world. It would we nice to think that the peak of the pandemic has passed and that things will get better from now.
    David :-)

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    1. Usa YamagamiJune 30, 2022 at 3:59 PM

      Thank you, David! From this site(https://worldpoverty.io/headline), I thought the number of people escaping from India is large. I didn't know why, but I had a new idea from you that economic growth is related to the poverty level.

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  7. Kana ItoJuly 1, 2022 at 12:46 AM

    Thank you, David! I also think that the peak of the pandemic has passed. We can see it from the 3rd graph and which is very nice.

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