Sentence examples for below the absolute poverty from inspiring English sources

Many earn less than $1.25 per day, living below the absolute poverty line as set by the World Bank.

By 2010, reducing child poverty had become a goal across the British political spectrum, and child poverty had fallen to 10.6 percent of children below the absolute poverty line (similar to the measure used in the United States), down from 26.1 percent in 1999.

Majority of the population (70 %) in the county live below the absolute poverty line have been on permanent food relief recipient for the last 10 years (GoK 2005).

The majority of people in Turkana live below the absolute poverty line (an estimated 87.5% of the population) with more than 50% heavily relying on food aid and safety net programmes from year to year.

The county is one of the poorest in Kenya with an estimated 87.5% of the population living below the absolute poverty line (Kenya National Bureau of Statistics KNBS [2013]).

The poorest households in the low livestock, low cash category have a mean daily per capita income of just $0.73, well below the absolute poverty line ($1/person/day) and are therefore very vulnerable.

Between 1995/96 and 2005/6, the percentage of the population living below the poverty line (US$1/day) decreased from 42% to 31%, and the absolute poverty dropped by one percentage points per year over the past couple of years.

For the absolute poverty index, we defined 3 poverty groups based on the World Bank's categories [ 3].

In addition, not everyone was sharing the benefits of growth about 135 million people, or one-tenth of the population, still lived below the international absolute poverty line of $1 per day.

This disparity may be partially attributable to the reported difficulties in HBV training, vaccine transportation, vaccine storage, and vaccine costs in rural areas, where 21.5 million live below the official "absolute poverty" line [ 17, 25].

Cash aid covers only 16 percent of the needs of families living below the line of absolute poverty, and only 25 percent of the needs of those living below the line of extreme poverty.