The long-run perspective on global poverty.
The chart shows that poverty declined relative to various poverty lines – most rapidly in the two decades up to the COVID pandemic.
This chart is from our page on poverty where we also discuss how the pandemic impacted global poverty: https://ourworldindata.org/poverty
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80% of 1 billion = 800 million
10% of 8 billion = 800 million
(Roughly, the absolute number of absolute poor is the same as in 1800. Of ocurse, 80% of 8 billion today would be much worse.)
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Here's the same plot in absolute numbers: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/distribution-of-population-between-different-poverty-thresholds-historical?stackMode=absolute&country=~OWID_WRL
Draw your own conclusions.
@FailForward @maxroser Thank you! It's 674 millions (2018) vs 794 millions (1820).