Kwa watanzania ili mujielewe, stop comparing your poverty statistics to Kenya's blindly., this is world banks measure (since u joined mido income na hii corona bado utafiti haujafanywa kudhibitisha Tz as mido income inasimama wapi)
These 115 countries include 33 low income countries, with a median poverty line of $1.91 per person per day. Considering that this was
not, in fact
, how the $1.90 in 2011 PPPs was originally obtained, this number points to the relevance and robustness of that threshold as typical of the world’s poorest countries. Then there are 32 lower middle income countries, with a median poverty line of $3.21; and another 32 upper middle income countries, with a median poverty line of $5.48. (There are also 29 high-income countries, with a median line of $21.70/day, which corresponds to the yellow line in Figure 1, but we do not use that line in what follows.)
Starting this month, the World Bank will report poverty rates for all countries using two new international poverty lines: a lower middle-income International Poverty Line, set at $3.20/day; and an upper middle-income International Poverty Line, set at $5.50/day. This will be in addition to the $1.90 International Poverty Line – which remains our headline poverty threshold, and continues to define the Bank’s goal of ending global extreme poverty by 2030. These two lines correspond to the red and green horizontal line segments superimposed on the scatter plot in Figure 1 and will replace the higher “regional” lines previously reported for some regions (such as Europe and Central Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean) in certain World Bank documents.
Wewe ni mpumbavu kama ulivyo kawaida. I needed you to know the measurement walitumia kuweka poverty line ya Tz was not same as Kenya's. Shida yako ni kua ukweli huwa inakutesa roho sana![emoji23][emoji23] Ngoja watumie kigezo cha lower middle income tujue mko wapi. Watanzabia wengi mna ushabiki wa kijinga, so clueless and ignorant, subjective analyisis and skewed perspective, jielimisheni[emoji23][emoji23]
Soma vile mambo yanafanywa na sababu(ama fanya utafiti wako binafsi from World bank website)[emoji116][emoji116]
According to the World Bank, if you're living on $1.90 a day or less, you're living in extreme poverty.
The 767 million people in that category have $1.90 a day or less in purchasing power to fulfill their daily needs.
Most of that money goes for food – only it may not be enough to purchase nutritious food..
Their housing may be of low quality. And they may not have enough money for school fees (primary education isn't always free) or health-care expenses.
Millions of the extremely poor live in the world's low-income countries. But here's a surprising fact: Well over half of the extremely poor live in middle income countries like India, Nigeria and China.
And here's another point to consider: You can have more than $1.90 a day to spend on the basic necessities and still live in relative poverty.
As the World Bank puts it in a poverty FAQ: "Not surprisingly, richer countries tend to have higher poverty lines, while poorer countries have lower poverty lines."
That's why the World Bank has come up with two new "poverty line" figures for the world's middle-income countries: $3.20 a day for lower middle income nations (like Egypt, India and the Philippines) and $5.50 a day for upper middle income nations (like Brazil, Jamaica and South Africa).
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The idea is that the new numbers offer a better way to measure poverty in middle-income countries.
"These new numbers are closer to the individual country's national poverty lines," says
Homi Kharas, senior fellow and co-director of the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution.
They represent a "fixed benchmark to judge whether poverty is going up or going down in the world" – and for middle-income countries to see how they're doing.
Of course, it's natural to be a bit befuddled about the meaning of these new figures.
"The challenge the World Bank has is to make sure people don't get confused," says
Kharas.
In a nutshell, there's extreme poverty ... and just plain poverty.