| Resumen: |
Decades of remarkable progress against poverty and inequality have given way to a period of slower and more uneven gains. Between 1990 and 2020, the share of the world s population living in extreme poverty fell from 43 percent to 11 percent, driven largely by gains in large middle-income economies. The number of economies with high inequality, measured by a Gini index above 40, declined from 70 in 2000 to 42 in 2024. But progress has slowed, and extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in a few economies, most of them in Sub-Saharan Africa and in fragile and conflict-affected situations.
This edition has a thematic focus on jobs, which the World Bank Group has made central to its development agenda toward a world free of poverty on a livable planet. Drawing on new data for more than 130 economies, it provides the first global profile of the work done by poor and nonpoor adults. |
