Countries with the Most People in Extreme Poverty

Thanks for taking my suggestion and updating the quiz. I have made my versions (both for absolute numbers and percentage) in the meantime using the same source (world poverty clock), but have not updated those for 1 year, I guess, they are irrelevant now thanks to this quiz

I didn't say that I didn't have a nice time in India. But I did enjoy my trip to Ethiopia more. If there are things that I didn't particularly like about India it would include the pollution and poor sanitation, the bad infrastructure, and the fact that both my mother and I got deathly ill on the trip thanks for sure in part to the above. But I'm glad I got to go. I'll say this about the country, though: it's definitely not for novice travelers. Everything from securing visas, to arranging transportation, to avoiding hassles and scams once there... I could see dissuading less seasoned travelers from ever traveling anywhere again. There is a very long list of countries I'd advise people go to before India. But if you've been to Bangladesh and survived I'm sure you'd be fine there.

Ethiopia was indeed much less crowded, cleaner, prettier, didn't make me sick, presented fewer hassles and was just overall a better experience. And though some personified hangnail is going to wrongly interpret this as some kind of weird brag or sexism: I also found friendlier, more attractive women there. A lot of this is subjective, and some of it is random or the result of luck, I know. I spent fewer than 3 weeks both places. But... again... my comment above was not actually meant to imply that I had a bad time in India.

One other factor in my positive recollection of Ethiopia may be that, at the time I went to India, I had already spent a very substantial amount of time in Asia, including many years in the Middle East and SouthEast Asia, and there are a lot of similarities between India and places like Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and Bahrain. On the other hand, I've never visited any other sub-Saharan African country. So it was more of a novelty.

^Yeah, the pollution/sanitation is probably the #1 thing that bothers me about Bangladesh too. And yes, I've heard that it's difficult to get visas to India. My sister tried to get us Indian visas once and the process was long and arduous, and in the end we only got visas for 6 months (we ended up not going due to scheduling disruptions). It seems like their government tries anything it can to keep people from visiting.

Sorry to hear that you got sick--I've heard it happens to a lot of people. I'm glad to hear of your experiences though, and it makes sense.

As kogatora replied, it is considered extreme poverty when the salary is $1.90 per day or lower, is the figure used by the UN and pretty much every other institution.

This quiz focuses on number of people not percentage so India with only 9% of its billion and a half people tops the list, but countries where most of the population is in extreme poverty are not shown because they don´t have as much total population, like Haiti or Cuba with just over 10 million people, where the income is regularly just below of just above the $1.90 per day line, in the case of Venezuela with 30 million people and over 50% extreme poverty you see it, and salaries are regularly $0.15 per day

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The source also appears to not list countries that have an extreme poverty rate under 3%. Even 0.75% would be enough to get China on the list, so I'm still slightly sceptical. China certainly isn't the worst country to live in, but it's not exactly great either.

Sure, but most people think of it as just a tiny country so no reason to think it'd be on quiz about population size. Of course, Burundi is so poor and so densely populated that it just makes it onto the quiz anyways.

The lockdown initiated in March 2020 was too long, too harsh and at a very short notice. It kind of worked in 2020 , with lesser that effected deaths. However, the mishandling and utter carelessness of the government in April 2021, led to a second wave , which negated any of the benefits of the first lockdown, and led to an economy shutdown for the second time. All of this combined with the 2016 demonetization, the poor rollout of a unified goods and service tax, and the everlasting corruption that is still present in the lower levels, has significantly reduced the poverty elimination rate.

Although extreme poverty has reduced considerably in the last 30 years , India has lagged behind other countries such as China in reducing poverty. The chief reason behind it is that our manufacturing sector never took off.

The economy until 1991 was completely socialist (It is still majorly socialist today) , all major industries were nationalized, and private capital was virtually nonexistent. Also, since it's independence India's economy has been Agriculture based. Agriculture today still employs 55% !!!! of the population , while making up only 14% of the GDP. This has led to high numbers of disguised unemployment . Even though Agriculture comprises a large portion of govt spending, it has still not modernized due to the refusal of farmers to modernize(any attempt at reform has been unsuccessful due to large protests). This prevent millions of agricultural families from coming out of poverty.

And even after economic liberalization in 1991, setting up industries in India is nightmare with unimaginable amount of corruption and environment regulations(which are very easily waived off for agriculture, as farmers form a large vote bank).

"If we spent even 1% of our massive, multi-trillion dollar Covid handouts on foreign aid, it could make a big difference."

? I think a lot of people learned from the social experiment of Afghanistan what happens when the best civilization in the world donates unlimited money, and 20 years of volunteerism, to a less developed one.

If the local populace isn't interested in advancing, they aren't going to advance. It's almost like that explains their current situation..

If anyone wants to take their own trillion dollars, and attempt it again, I encourage them to. I'm not interested in doing things again and expecting different results. You can arrange your own church group or social group to do that outside of the United States government.

However, looking at the source at World Poverty Clock, it states Burundi as having 9,355,887 people living in extreme poverty - that's 79% of people. Probably should be included in this quiz in which case, you're right Dave!

So much potential... for oil extraction? By the time they figure it out hopefully most of the world will be on to other things than sucking the last drops of oil out of the Earth.