professionalspooner@feddit.org to Optimists Unite@reddthat.comEnglish · 4 天前Extreme poverty dropped from 44% of the global population in 1981 to just 9% in 2019.feddit.orgimagemessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up143arrow-down1imageExtreme poverty dropped from 44% of the global population in 1981 to just 9% in 2019.feddit.orgprofessionalspooner@feddit.org to Optimists Unite@reddthat.comEnglish · 4 天前message-square6fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareJeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·4 天前Follow up question should be: did they also reclassify ‘extreme poverty’?
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·4 天前 Poverty is defined as living in a household with consumption per capita below $2.15 per day. They did not. Unless they forgot to account for inflation, but that would be a pretty glaring mistake to make.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 天前Depends if that $2.15 was adjusted for inflation I guess.
Follow up question should be: did they also reclassify ‘extreme poverty’?
They did not. Unless they forgot to account for inflation, but that would be a pretty glaring mistake to make.
Depends if that $2.15 was adjusted for inflation I guess.