By the end of March 2026 India will overtake Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy. But the country falls short ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 8.3 million people in Mexico were pulled out of poverty between 2022 and 2024, according to a report released by Mexico’s statistics agency on Wednesday. It marks a nearly ...

Extreme poverty continues to affect millions of people worldwide, hindering their ability to thrive and reach their full potential. Global Goal 1 aims to eradicate poverty by 2030, but to achieve this ...

Eds: APNewsNow. This story is part of AP's general news and financial services. MEXICO (AP) - The Mexican government says poverty rose by 1.7 percent between 2008 and 2010 due to the global economic ...

The World Bank Group has set a clear mission: ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet. This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward these ...

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...

Illustration by The New York Times. Photograph by Getty Images. By Max Roser Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Roser is the founder of Our World in Data and a professor at the University of Oxford’s ...

A version of this story originally appeared in the Good News newsletter. Sign up here! Back in 2022, sunglasses-wearing U2 frontman and rock star philanthropist Bono gave one of those long interviews ...