A review of South Africa’s methodology to measure poverty shows that 60% of people in the country are poor. This is way higher than the figures that are usually quoted.

Analysis - In 2004, the former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev told world leaders: "We are all agreed that poverty is the key problem of our times." He called it "a political problem" since the ...

Nigeria has overtaken India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, with an estimated 87 million Nigerians, or around half of the country’s population ...

Using the poverty line of US$1.90 a day, Africa’s extreme poverty rate of 43.1% in 1981 was almost equal to the average for the rest of the world’s rate of 42.8%. ... Chart 2: US$1.90 poverty rate for ...

Sub-Saharan Africa's poverty rate has also been raised, increasing the estimated number of people living in extreme poverty ...

33 out of 40 countries with the highest rates of poverty are from Africa, owing to the continent's unstable economic state. According to ISS Africa , Central Africa has the highest extreme poverty ...

According to data cited in the AfDB report, South Sudan now ranks as the poorest country in ...

Africa’s middle classes are the financial backbone of the continent with many creating the small and medium enterprises that drives job creation and economic development. Yet many are only one ...

The World Bank has forecasted a sharp increase in Nigeria’s poverty rate by 2027, citing weak governance, overreliance on oil, and economic fragility Over 106 million Nigerians were reported to ...

Consequently, by 2030, around 574 million people, estimated at 7 percent of the world’s total population, will continue to live in extreme poverty, relying on about two dollars a day.

China has risen above the threshold of living on less than US$1.90 per day, accounting for almost three-quarters of the total global poverty reduction since 1980. If measured against China’s ...

People queue to cast their votes In Soweto, South Africa April 27, 1994, in the country's first all-race elections. South Africans celebrate "Freedom Day" every April 27.