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Percentage of the Population Living on $2 or Less a Day

surviving on a few dollars per day worldMIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, conducted surveys in developing nations to see which countries survive on a few dollars per day. The cities or countries where people are known to live on meager dollar amounts on a daily bases are not that surprising, but the percentage of the population living under these conditions is.

In Udaipur and Hyderabad (India) a staggering 94% of the population survive on $2 or less per day. In Bangladesh, 69.4% go on $2 or less per day. In Ghana, 67.7% survive on $2 or less per day. In Guatemala, 64.8% of the population survive on $2 or less per day.

Source: GOOD: Living on Less

 

Poverty in the U.S. and Around the World

  1. The Poverty Line: One day, one person (The Poverty Line)
  2. World Population Below The Poverty Line – Map (IndexMundi)
  3. United States Poverty Rate by State 2006-2010 – Map (IndexMundi)
  4. United States – People of All Ages in Poverty: 2006-2010 by County – Map (IndexMundi)
  5. Global poverty, Absolute Poverty, Relative Poverty: A Fresh Look – Merrell J. Tuck-Primdahl (World Bank)