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Chart: 385 Million Children Live in Extreme Poverty

Half the world's extremely poor are children. New analysis from the World Bank and UNICEF finds that almost 385 million children were living in extreme poverty in 2013. 8 out of 10 of those children lived in just 20 countries. Read more in "Ending Extreme Poverty: A Focus on Children


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Tariq Khokhar

Global Data Editor & Senior Data Scientist

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