Extreme Poverty Overview

Disclosure: This project is a syntheses of the information stored under the Sources page. Therefore, it is not my original writing but rather a copy and paste of certain section from these sources.

Salo Serfati

Definition

Extreme poverty is defined by the United Nations as “a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services”. It mainly refers to people living under the international poverty line, which is $1.90 a day (World Bank, 2017). This is the equivalent of $1.00 a day in 1996 US prices, hence the widely used expression "living on less than a dollar a day”.

Ending poverty is the first of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. I highly encourage people to visit

this website⁠

to see an overview of the other 16 goals.