Global Monitoring Report (World Bank)

The Global Monitoring Report was a joint World Bank and International Monetary Fund report that monitored how the world is doing in implementing the policies and actions for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and related development outcomes. Published annually since 2006, the report was discontinued in 2016.

Poverty forecasts

The October 2015 report notes that just over 900 million people (12.8 percent of the world population) were living in extreme poverty (less than $1.90 a day) in 2012, compared with 987 million (14.2 percent of the world population) in 2011. It also projects that by 2015 less than 10% of the world's population will fall under the poverty line.

The October 2015 report revised the official poverty line to $1.90 a day, from $1.25 previously.

The following tables^[1] show that Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest percentage of extreme poverty, with 42.6% of its population living below $1.90 a day. Poverty rates are projected to decline in this region through 2030, but remain at very high levels.

Share of population below US$1.90 a day (2011 ppp)^[2]

Region	1990	1999	2011	2012	2015p
East Asia and Pacific	60.6	37.5	8.5	7.2	4.1
Eastern Europe and Central Asia	1.9	7.8	2.4	2.1	1.7
Latin America and the Caribbean	17.8	13.9	5.9	5.6	5.6
Middle East and North Africa	6.0	4.2	-	-	-
South Asia	50.6	41.8	22.2	18.8	13.5
Sub-Saharan Africa	56.8	58.0	44.4	42.7	35.2
Developing world	44.4	34.3	16.5	14.9	11.9
World	37.1	29.1	14.1	12.7	9.6

Millions of people below US$1.90 a day (2011 ppp)^[2]

Region	1990	1999	2011	2012	2015p
East Asia and Pacific	995.5	689.4	173.1	147.2	82.6
Eastern Europe and Central Asia	8.8	36.8	11.4	10.1	4.4
Latin America and the Caribbean	78.2	71.1	35.3	33.7	29.7
Middle East and North Africa	13.5	11.3	-	-	-
South Asia	574.6	568.0	361.7	309.2	231.3
Sub-Saharan Africa	287.6	374.6	393.6	388.8	347.1
World	1,958.6	1,751.5	983.3	896.7	702.1

The World Bank forecasts receive extensive media coverage.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

See also

• World Economic Outlook (a similar IMF publication)

References

1. World Bank extreme poverty forecasts.
2. World Bank; International Monetary Fund (2016). Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016: Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change. Washington, DC: World Bank. p. 6. doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-0669-8. hdl:10986/22547. ISBN 978-1-4648-0669-8.
3. "World Bank: Extreme poverty 'to fall below 10%'". BBC News. 5 October 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
4. "World Bank set to redefine extreme poverty as living on $1.90 a day". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 24 September 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
5. Mayeda, Andrew (6 October 2015). "Global extreme poverty poised to hit record low, World Bank says". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 4 November 2015.
6. "Millions to be thrown into poverty as World Bank shifts threshold". The Daily Telegraph. 24 September 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
7. Taylor, Adam (5 October 2015). "For the first time, less than 10 percent of the world is living in extreme poverty, World Bank says". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 7 May 2024.

External links

• Global Monitoring Report -- website
• Global Monitoring Report -- October 2015 report (PDF)