More than one billion people on the planet live in extreme poverty - UN
In poor countries, infant mortality rates are as high as 8 per cent.
More than 1.1 billion people in the world live in extreme poverty. They have no housing, no access to medicine, education, light, water, heat, and food is not on their tables every day. The frightening statistics is reported by the press service of the UN.
The international organisation points out that almost half of such people live in regions engulfed in military conflicts or those whose economies have suffered as a result of war and armed clashes.
In countries where wars continue, 34.8 per cent of the population live in poverty, while in peaceful regions this figure is 10.9 per cent," the document says.
The UN points out that in each "beggar" country one fifth of the population is hungry, almost the same number of people cannot study, infant mortality there is 8%, and one in four people do not have access to electricity.
Children remain the most vulnerable in this situation, as half of those in dire need on this planet are under 18 years of age. Of these, 828 million do not have access to adequate sanitation and 886 million live in uninhabitable housing.
The UN calls Afghanistan the world's poorest country. The number of beggars in the country is increasing dramatically. For example, between 2015 and 2023, the number of poor people in Afghanistan increased by 5.3 million, which means that two-thirds of the population is living on the edge.
Minor successes in overcoming poverty are demonstrated by: Benin, Cambodia, Comoros, the Kingdom of Eswatini, Kenya, Mozambique, the Philippines, Tanzania and Trinidad and Tobago.
It should be noted that Ukraine is not in a better position. As Reuters reported in May, citing World Bank data, the number of Ukrainians living in poverty has reached a third of the population, and a quarter of the population is forced to save on food.
According to UN standards, if a person spends less than 5 dollars a day and less than 150 dollars a month on living and food, he or she lives below the poverty threshold