Extreme poverty dropped from 44% of the global population in 1981 to just 9% in 2019.

I found this in the newsletter from Our World in Data and thought it was interesting to share here.

The researchers are from the University of San Diego. I shared the link above to the authors’ website because the university website is not opening for me.

The final version should be here, according to the newsletter and Google: https://econweb.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/papers/how_poverty_fell.pdf