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United Nations: Even though the world is measuring the distance between the moon and the sun and is creating new dimensions of progress every day, many countries have still not been able to recover from the sting of poverty. There are still a significant number of poor people in the world. You will also be shocked to hear the figures released by the United Nations regarding the poor around the world. According to the latest figures of the United Nations, more than one billion people in the world are living in extreme poverty and half of them are children. 40 percent of these people are living in conflict or unstable countries.
The United Nations has issued a statement on Thursday regarding poverty in the world. The report released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative of the University of Oxford said that more than 83 percent of poor people live in rural areas and the same percentage of these people live in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Live. The United Nations Development Program and Oxford have been releasing a multidimensional poverty index every year since 2010, which is based on 10 indicators including health, education and living standards.
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This year’s index analyzed data from 112 countries in which the world’s 6.3 billion population reside. According to the index, 1.1 billion people are living in extreme poverty, of which almost half are in five countries: India (234 million), Pakistan (93 million), Ethiopia (86 million), Nigeria (74 million) and Congo (66 million). reside. According to the report, almost half of the people living in extreme poverty, i.e. 584 million, are children below 18 years of age. Of them, 317 million people live in Sub-Saharan Africa, while 184 million live in South Asia.
Poverty increased in these countries
According to UN report, poverty has increased in Afghanistan. The proportion of poor children is even higher at about 59 percent. UNDP and Oxford said this year’s report focuses on poverty amid conflict, as 2023 saw the highest number of conflicts since World War II and the highest number ever of 117 million people displaced by war, disasters and other factors. Had to leave their homes and get displaced. “Combining conflict data with global MPI data for the first time, the report highlights the difficult realities of people who face conflict and poverty simultaneously,” said Pedro Conceição, Director of the United Nations Development Programme. Have been.”
More than 45 crore people are struggling with basic needs
What is most shocking, according to the report, is that 455 million people who are multidimensionally poor and living in conflict environments, are living with severe deprivation of basic needs like nutrition, water and sanitation, electricity and education and this deprivation extends to the common areas. “The MPI can reveal which areas are poor and target poverty alleviation efforts can be made in those areas,” said Sabina Alkire, director of the Oxford Initiative. He said, “For example, Burkina Faso is under military rule and attacks by extremists have increased there. About two-thirds of the population there is poor. (AP)
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