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Chart: Half of the World's Extremely Poor are Children

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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. 9 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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