India has recorded a sharp decline in poverty over the last decade, the World Bank stated this in its latest report “Poverty & Equity Brief,” showing that extreme poverty fell to 2.3% in 2022–23, down ...

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said extreme poverty has been eliminated in Kerala and that the State is on a stable path ...

Marking a big achievement over the last decade, extreme poverty in India has dropped substantially from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% in 2022-23, according to the latest World Bank data. The remarkable ...

Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, with an estimated 87 million Nigerians, or around half of the country’s population, thought to ...

When the Chief Minister of India’s Kerala state announced on 1 November 2025 that the state had eliminated extreme poverty, it came as a surprise to many. While a valid debate over issues of ...

Western "poverty porn" narratives about India ignore the country's rapid poverty reduction and economic transformation.

By 2023, the country’s economy had all but stalled, and the IMF forecast only 0.5 per cent growth. On the other hand, in India, the economy remained on a robust growth path with an above 6 per cent ...

On Nov. 1, the southern Indian state of Kerala will be officially declared the first among the nation’s 28 states to be “free of extreme poverty.” This is a remarkable achievement, experts say, as the ...

The global fight against extreme poverty used to be a success story. In 1981, a staggering 41% of the world’s population ...

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Here’s a collection of some of the best data visualizations on global literacy, mortality, birth rates and more that will help put some of the biggest issues surrounding poverty today into perspective ...