Summary
The number of people without enough food dropped a lot. 🍎
More women are getting jobs, especially in villages. 👩🌾
The country is working to help the places that still need help. 🗺️
Key Points
4 points1
About 496 million people lifted out of extreme poverty between 2011 and 2023.
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Extreme poverty fell from 27.1% to 2.6%.
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People earning less than United States dollars 4.20 a day dropped from 57.7% to 16.1%.
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Employment grew by about 134 million jobs, many for rural women.
New Words to Learn
8 wordsextreme poverty
when people do not have enough money for basic needs like food and shelter
consumption
the things people buy and use every day
subsidies
helpful money given by the government to make things cheaper
multidimensional
involving many different parts or aspects
disparities
big differences between groups or places
microsimulations
small computer models that try to predict what might happen
macro-economic
big‑picture ideas about a country’s overall money and jobs
productivity
how much work can be done in a certain amount of time
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