New research estimates that climate change will drive 68 million to 132 million into poverty by 2030. Middle-income countries such as India and Nigeria will be significantly affected middle-income countries may be home to about 80 percent of the new poor. Live in congested urban settings and work in the sectors most affected by lockdowns and mobility restrictions.Be more engaged in informal services and manufacturing and less in agriculture.Many people who had barely escaped extreme poverty could be forced back into it by the convergence of COVID-19, conflict, and climate change. About 132 million of the global poor live in areas with high flood risk.Those economies have just 10 percent of the worldвЂ™s population. More than 40 percent of the global poor live in economies affected by fragility, conflict and violence, and that number is expected to rise to 67 percent in the next decade.Almost half of poor people in Sub-Saharan Africa live in just five countries: Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Madagascar.About 70 percent of the global poor aged 15 and older have no schooling or only some basic education. Women represent a majority of the poor in most regions and among some age groups. In 2018, four out of five people below the international poverty line lived in rural areas.

About 100 million additional people are living in poverty as a result of the pandemic. Global extreme poverty rose in 2020 for the first time in over 20 yearsВ as the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic compounded the forces of conflict and climate change, which were already slowing poverty reduction progress. Now,В for the first time in a generation,В the quest to end povertyВ hasВ suffered a setback. For almost 25 years,В extreme poverty - the first of the worldвЂ™s Sustainable Development GoalsВ - was steadily declining. This mission underpins our analytical, operational, and convening work in more than 145 client countries. The World Bank GroupвЂ™s goals are to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity.

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