Economy > Poverty > Share of all poor people: Countries Compared

The distribution of the poor over different countries is indicative of nothing more than their spread geographically. China and India, the <a href=/graph/peo_pop>world’s most populous nations</a>, are home to over 63% of the world’s poorest and while they rank low on <a href=/graph/eco_gdp_cap>GDP per capita</a>, are high on GDP ranking in terms of <a href=/graph/eco_gdp_ppp>purchasing power parity</a>, China 2nd behind the USA and India 4th.

It is also interesting to compare the global distribution of the poor with the proportion of <a href=/graph/eco_pop_bel_pov_lin&int=-1>people living below the poverty line</a> within each country and the ratios of a country’s poor with the distribution of wealth within each country. In India, for example, <a href=/graph/eco_inc_dis_ric_10&int=-1>the richest tenth</a> consume 33.5% of the resources, in China (and the USA) around 30.5%).

Some of the countries currently protesting in the middle east like Yemen, Egypt etc seem to also be quite high up on the list.

China is a developing country .not long time in future.the poor people will decrease more !

Just wondering if this facts are based on the global population; since they keep saying that Haiti, Guatemala and Nicaragua are the most poor in America; and here I see Mexico and Colombia leading the numbers for this continent.

How can I tell how current your data is? I need to know what year the figures are from.

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Interesting to note the over 70% of the world's poor are located in Asia, this is a good reason why Servants to Asia's Urban poor (www.servantsasia.org) focusses on this continent.