Poverty rate worldwide 1990-2019, by region
Most remarkably, the poverty rate in East Asia & The Pacific fell from over 65 percent in 1990 to one percent in 2019, underlining the rapid increase of living standards in the region over the past three decades. Also South Asia has seen a remarkable reduction of poverty during the period, from around 50 percent in 1990 to less than nine in 2019. That year, Sub-Saharan Africa was the region with the highest share of people living on less than 2.15 U.S. dollars per day, but also here there has been a poverty reduction since 1990.
