Learn how the poverty gap measures poverty's intensity through income shortfalls from the poverty line, and explore its ...

New York, 17 October 2025 – Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, ...

Flies cover a malnourished child's face at a camp for internally displaced people outside Baradere, Somalia, March 13, 2022. In a Sept. 29 message to Qu Dongyu, general director of the U.N. Food and ...

Filipino families were poor in 2023. A family is classified as poor when it earns less than a defined threshold income ...

At the time the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration took office in 2023, the inflation rate was at 22.41 per cent. However, the removal of subsidy and the ...

Pope Francis joins some 1,300 guests for lunch in the Vatican audience hall on the World Day of the Poor Nov. 13, 2022. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters) In 2015, Pope Francis addressed the United ...

Hong Kong, with its glittering skyscrapers and luxury malls, is home to some of the world’s richest people but new government figures show that a fifth of its population lives in poverty. About 1.3 ...

Nigerians are worried that insecurity is fuelling a new poverty crisis in the country by disrupting livelihoods, displacing ...

Nearly 8 in 10 people living in multidimensional poverty – 887 million out of 1.1 billion globally – are directly exposed to climate hazards such as extreme heat, flooding, drought, or air pollution, ...