Ending Extreme Poverty

BRIEFING NOTE

A FOCUS ON CHILDREN

Ending Extreme Poverty: A Focus on Children – a briefing note from the World Bank Group and UNICEF – finds that children in developing countries are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty. The briefing note finds that in 2013, 19.5 per cent of children in 89 countries were living in households that survived on an average of US$1.90 a day per person or less, compared to just 9.2 per cent of adults. Globally, almost 385 million children were living in extreme poverty.

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About this Report

Author(s): The World Bank Group and UNICEF

Publication date: October 2016

Language: English

UNICEF
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