India has surpassed Nigeria as the nation with the highest number of extremely poor people in the world.
According to World Poverty Clock (WPC), about 83 million Indians have been plunged into extreme poverty in 2022, representing 6 per cent of the country’s population.
The WPC data said 70 million Nigerians are living in extreme poverty, representing 33 per cent of Nigeria’s over 200 million people.
In 2018, Nigeria held the position as the poverty capital of the world with about 87 million people in extreme poverty, compared with India’s 73 million.
The World Poverty Clock is an online tool that monitors the progress against poverty globally and regionally and provides real-time poverty data across countries.
According to its data, extremely poor people are those living on N800 per day (less than $2 per day).
