According to the data published by the UN, 1.1 billion people in the world live in extreme poverty, and almost half of them – 455 million people – are in countries where conflicts are or unlucky reign.
The publication is timed to the International Struggle for the Elimination of Poverty – October 17, the UN press service reports.
The UN Development Program (UNDP) and the University of Oxford analyzed statistics for a ten -year period of 112 countries in which 6.3 billion people live and conducted an additional survey in 20 countries.
According to the results of the work, an updated report on the global index of the so -called “multidimensional” or extreme poverty was prepared.
At the same time, the authors of the publication emphasized that data collection in countries affected by the conflict is problematic. Because of this, the poverty level may be underestimated, and real indicators can be higher. However, the available data still prove the interconnectedness of poverty and conflicts.
So, in countries at an average of 34.8 percent of the population lives in conditions of poverty, while in countries where there is no conflict, only 10.9 percent of people belong to the poor people.
“In recent years, the conflicts intensified and multiplied, having reached new maximums by the number of victims, forcing millions of people to leave their homes, destroying their lives and depriving them of their means of existence,” said the head of UNCHM Ahim Steiner.
countries at war, have the highest indicators for all aspects of multidimensional poverty, which emphasizes the destructive effect of conflicts on the most vulnerable segments of the population.
For example, in countries affected by conflict, more than 25 percent of poor people do not have access to electricity, compared with 5 percent of poor people in more stable regions.
Similar differences are observed in areas such as children’s mortality (8 percent versus 1.1 percent), access to nutrition (20.8 percent versus 7.2 percent) and children’s education (17.7 percent versus 4.4 percent ).
Poverty reduction, as a rule, is most slow in countries on which the conflict had the most destructive effect.
The report, in particular, includes an in -depth study on Afghanistan, where in the turbulent period from 2015 to 2023 the number of poor people increased by 5.3 million people.
According to published data, more than half of the poor people are children under the age of 18 years. All over the world, 27.9 percent of children live in poverty compared to 13.5 percent of adults.
At the same time, 828 million poor people have no proper sanitary conditions, 886 million people have no adequate housing, they say at the UN.
In South Asia, 272 million poor people live in families where there is at least one person suffering from malnutrition, and in the countries of Africa south of Sahara – 256 million