What Is the Poverty Line?
The line is used for statistics or public programs; it comes as a precise number, but someone had to decide what that number should be.
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1.What is a poverty line?
The line is used for statistics or public programs; it comes as a precise number, but someone had to decide what that number should be.
2.What is the World Bank's line for extreme poverty (June 2025 update)?
It is a middle value: the World Bank took the national lines of 23 low-income countries and used the middle one.
3.How does the EU set its at-risk-of-poverty line?
The median is the middle income: half earn more and half earn less (Eurostat).
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Sources (5)
- World Bank: June 2025 Update to Global Poverty Lines (Fact Sheet, 5. June 2025)
- World Bank Blog: September 2026 Global Poverty Update - One in ten worldwide live in extreme poverty
- U.S. HHS, ASPE: Poverty Guidelines (2026)
- Eurostat Statistics Explained: Glossary - At-risk-of-poverty rate
- Eigene Berechnung (synthetische Strasse
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