Now over a third can be considered officially impoverished, according to the statistics agency Eurostat.
Some, such as the help Muammar Gaddafi gave to the IRA, were considered officially closed.
After the last known case of smallpox occurred, in Somalia, in 1977, however, the virus was considered officially eradicated.
Much of the decline since 2009, however, has occurred because people have stopped looking for work and are no longer considered officially unemployed.
Her completist phase could have been considered officially over 17 years later, when she married Owen, whom she met at the Columbia M.F.A. writing program in 2001.
But I think of it as one of those horror film monsters that can't be considered officially dead so long as one viscous membrane is still pulsing as the sun comes up.
Asked whether Ukip would consider officially teaming up with the Greens to campaign for electoral reform, Farage was coy, saying: "We don't see eye to eye on many issues, but on this one..."...
Asked whether Ukip would consider officially teaming up with the Greens to campaign for electoral reform, Farage was coy, saying: "We don't see eye to eye on many issues, but on this one..."....
Taken by themselves, not big news perhaps, but add to that 22 other countries which, since 2000, are no longer considered officially poor, then a quite profound global change is under way: in short, most of the world's poor no longer live in "poor" countries.
