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Global trends in child monetary poverty
September 28 , 2023
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- The Global Trends in Child Monetary Poverty According to International Poverty Lines was prepared by the World Bank Group and UNICEF.
- World’s extremely poor population is increasingly being added by children.
- The latest assessment of child poverty is based on the new poverty line of $2.15.
- In 2022, children accounted for 52.5 per cent of the total extreme poor population in the world.
- In 2022, 15.9 per cent of the world children population lived in extremely poor households as compared to 6.6 per cent of adults.
- In India, according to the assessment, 11.5 per cent children live in extremely poor households.
- In absolute numbers, 52 million Indian children who are poor.
- Some 18.3 per cent (99 million) of children is living in extreme poor households were below the age of five years.
- The average poverty gap at the $2.15 line of children younger than 18 years is greater (5.1 per cent) than that of adults (1.9 per cent).
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