In 2018, the number of poor people in Europe and Central Asia exceeded 4 million // VESTI.MD / All news of the day

It is noteworthy that in 1990, 36% of the world’s population lived on less than $2 a day. Twenty-five years later, that proportion had fallen to 10%, and by the end of 2018 to 8.6%, the report said. Union.

However, the current pace of poverty reduction has called into question the achievement of the goal of eradicating poverty in the next 10 years.

“Despite this impressive progress, the world as a whole is on slow track to achieving the goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 as set out in Sustainable Development Goal 1 of the 2030 Agenda,” the UN Secretary-General concluded.

In recent years, the progress of poverty reduction in developing countries and some middle-income countries has slowed down due to the impact of global economic recession, conflicts, climate change and natural disasters. In many parts of the world, the growth rate of per capita GDP is far below the level required to eliminate poverty.

Furthermore, the situation has been made worse by a sharp rise in inequality.

“It is difficult to eradicate poverty when the incomes of the poorest 10 percent grow by less than $3 per year,” the report says.

The experts took many aspects into account in their assessment. They noted that in 2018 there were 1.3 billion poor people in the world: 560 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 546 million in South Asia, 118 million in East Asia and the Pacific, 66 million in the Arab States, 32 million in Latin America and the Caribbean, and 4 million in Europe and Central Asia.