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In 2017, 24.1 percent of the world lived on less than $3.20 a day and 43.6 percent on less than $5.50 a day. In that same year, a year when extreme global poverty had fallen, there were still 689 million people living on less than $1.90 a day.[2] This number is expected to rise as the world deals with the aftermath of COVID-19. Living off of $1.90 a day equates to living off of less than $700 a year. At the time of this writing, roughly 10 percent of the global population is living in this extreme poverty.
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