408,000,000

Number of people who will be living in extreme poverty in Sub Saharan Africa by 2015, which will be 42.3 percent of the region’s total population. The number was 289.7 million in 1990, 56.5 pct of the population of the time, according to a Global Monitoring Report 2013, jointly produced by the World Bank and the International Monitory Fund. The East Asia and Pacific region has seen significant change in the last quarter of a century. More than 926.4 million of people lived in extreme poverty in 1990, 56.2 pct of the population of the region, where as there will only be 114.5 million people living in extreme poverty in 2015, 5.5% of the population, according to the report. This report, which is an annual report card on the world’s progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), is the 10th edition and was presented at AAU on May 7, 2013.