claim: global poverty is down to "less than 10% today from 37% in 1990."
author: boris johnson
evidence_1: fighting poverty in all of its dimensions lies at the core of the world bank's ... in  2015, 10 percent of the world's population lived on less than us$1.90 a ... in  2015, 736 million people lived on less than $1.90 a day, down from 1.85 billion in  1990. .... find out what the world bank group's branches are doing to reduce  poverty.
evidence_2: mar 5, 2018 ... today, about 10% of the world population lives in extreme poverty, while in 1990  the corresponding figure was about 37%. ... switch to the 'relative' view, you see  that poverty rates have been going down for all of the included poverty lines. ...  today less than 12% of the population live below this threshold.
evidence_3: mar 23, 2016 ... over the last 30 years, extreme poverty has been cut in half. ... rates, and there  are half as many children out of school today as there were ... ... percent of the  global population) lived on less than $1.90 a day in 1990, ... to 2012, and the  poverty headcount at the lower line ($2.52) was reduced by 37 percent.
evidence_4: jun 8, 2016 ... ... in history less than 10 percent of the world's population was living in extreme  poverty—down from 37 percent in 1990 and 44 percent in 1981.
evidence_5: extreme poverty rate in developing countries. 47%. 1990. 2015. 14%. global ...  nearly half of the population in the developing world lived on less than $1.25 a  day; ... by almost half, to an estimated 57 million in 2015, down from 100 million  in 2000. .... malaria incidence rate has fallen by an estimated 37 per cent and the  ...