Data in the latest United Nations Human Development Report shows that nearly half of Malawians remain trapped in ...

About 75.5 per cent of rural Nigerians are now living below the poverty line, reflecting deepening hardship in the country’s ...

The World Bank’s projection that Nigeria's poverty rate could soar to 56% by 2027 is now a source of concern to NACCIMA and ...

Here are the top 10 countries with the highest proportion of poor people among upper-middle-income nations in 2024, according ...

The World Bank has disclosed that the poverty rate among Nigeria’s rural population has reached an alarming 75.5 per cent, highlighting deepening inequality and widespread economic hardship across the ...

California’s economy continued to grow at a fast clip of 6% in 2024, according to data and Newsom’s office. The top three ...

The BPS responded to the World Bank data indicating that 60.3 percent of Indonesia's population is classified as poor.

The World Bank has raised a fresh concern over ... "Nigeria remains spatially unequal. The poverty rate in northern geopolitical zones was 46.5 per cent in 2018/19, compared with 13.5 per cent ...

World Bank noted that sub-Saharan Africa has the highest extreme poverty rate globally, with a large share of the poor ...

Importantly, poverty in resource-rich, fragile countries (which include large countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria) is expected to increase by 3.6 percentage points over 2022–27 ...