Summary
From 2011 to 2023, about 496 million people earned more than four dollars a day.
The share of people living in extreme poverty dropped from 27% to about 3%.
Almost all villages now have lights in their houses.
Key Points
4 points1
Targeted help and better jobs helped families earn more.
2
Women in the countryside found many new paid jobs.
3
Employment grew by about 134 million jobs between 2017 and 2023.
4
Electricity reached 99% of the population.
New Words to Learn
5 wordspolicy
A plan made by leaders to improve a situation
employment
Having a job or work that gives money
extreme poverty
Very severe lack of money, not enough for basic needs
government
The people who make rules and run a country
infrastructure
Important things like roads, electricity, and schools that help a country work
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