Jakarta (Antara Bali) - The World Bank has predicted that about one billion people in the world will still be stuck living at an extreme level of poverty in 2015.
"Although there is development and increasing economic growth in the developing countries, we predict that about one billion people will still be living in extreme poverty," said Martin Ravallion, director of the World Bank Research Group, in a press release received by ANTARA in Jakarta on Monday.
He said the fact that about nearly 663 million people were still living under the poverty line in many countries indicated that the world had remained vulnerable to extreme poverty.
According to data released by the World Bank, the median poverty level of people who earn $1.25 US dollars per day was the average amount in ten among twenty of the poorest countries in the world.
Meanwhile, in developing countries, the median poverty level wes $2 US dollars per day whereas the poverty level decreased slightly from 2.59 million people in 1981 to 2.47 million million people in 2008.(IGT)
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