World Extreme Poverty Rate
10.4% of the world's population lived in extreme poverty in 2024 (a year earlier: 10.6%) — down from over a third in 1990.
Updated July 12, 2026
World Extreme Poverty Rate
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DefinitionShare of world population living below the international extreme poverty line (currently $3.00/day, 2021 PPP), from household surveys compiled by the World Bank.
LimitationsSurvey coverage is uneven and recent years are partly nowcast; poverty-line revisions shift the whole series when PPP benchmarks update.
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10.4% of the world's population lived in extreme poverty in 2024 (a year earlier: 10.6%) — down from over a third in 1990.
World Bank — World Development Indicators (SI.POV.DDAY), World aggregate. License: CC BY 4.0. StatsPanda charts the original series directly and cites it on every download.
The underlying series is released on a annual cadence. This page was last updated July 12, 2026, and refreshes with each source release.