- The MDG1 poverty target has been met. The world has reduced the percentage of the population living in extreme poverty (less than $1.25 a day) from 47% in 1990 to 22% in 2014.
- The absolute number of people living in extreme poverty has declined from 1.92 billion in 1990 to 1.01 billion in 2010.
- China has brought down the percentage of its population living below the poverty line from 60.2% in 1990 to 11.8% in 2009.
- 74 countries halved their poverty rates, making this target the most met among the goals.
- 10 of the 74 countries that have met MDG1 have less than 2% of people living below $1.25 a day.
- About 173 million fewer people worldwide suffered from chronic hunger in 2011–13 than in 1990–92.
- Between 1992 and 2004, undernourishment among under three-year-olds fell from 18.7% to 11.3%.
- People employed in “vulnerable work” (typically jobs with very low wages, no job security and poor labour standards) decreased by 2.8% between 2008 and 2013
- Global food consumption has increased. The average number of calories consumed per person, per day has risen from 2,655 in 1984 to 2,940 in 2015.
- Cereal production grew from 1.7bn metric tonnes in 1990 to 2.8bn in 2013.
- India and China lifted 232 million people out of poverty between 2008 and 2011.
- East Asia’s poverty rate fell from nearly 60% to less than 20% between 1990 and 2013.
- Stunting in under-fives has decreased globally from 40% to 25% since 1990.
- Financing schemes in Bangladesh and Nigeria are credited with nearly doubling agricultural outputs and farmers’ incomes.
- All these gains have been made while global population has continued to rise, from 5.28 billion people in 1990 to 7.1 billion people in 2013.
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