“The World Bank’s International Poverty Line is an extremely low poverty line. Set at $3 per day, it draws attention to the living conditions of the poorest people on the planet…

In the year 2000, 36% of the world’s population lived on less than $3 per day. In 2024, it was 10%…

Progress against higher poverty lines has been large, too. The share living on less than $5 a day has declined from 57% to 25%, and the share living on less than $10 a day has declined from 74% to 53%.”

From Our World in Data.