Our estimates show that, globally, 7.3 billion people face air pollution levels that are considered unsafe by the WHO—that is, they are exposed to annual average PM2.5 concentrations over 5 μg/m3, which increases mortality rates by 4 percent compared to safe areas. Of these, 6.2 billion...
This would mean that it would be theoretically possible to get to an iPL from which any deviation would change the poverty statistics across countries at the same rate. This however it is not the case, as different household survey distributions have variable gradients at and around the iPL. ...
Globally, the burden of vIDPs varied significantly: COVID-19 caused around 7.9 million (95% UI: 7.5, 8.4) deaths and 212.0 million (95% UI 197.9, 234.7) DALYs in 2021. Acute hepatitis had the second-highest age-standardized incidence rate, with 3411.5 (95% UI: 3201.8, 3631.3) per 100...
Unemployment rates in low-income countries have remained persistently high, with the employment gap rate increasing from 20 percent in 2018 to 21 percent in 2023. These trends have exacerbated existing income and wealth inequalities globally, the report said. In 2022, the poorest half of the globa...
Briefly, the ASR was computed by adding the age-specific rate and the number of persons belonging to the same age subgroup of the standard population, and then dividing by the sum of the standard population weights. The ASR was calculated as follows: ASR=∑i=1Naiwi∑i=1Awi where ai is ...
Of course, sometimes there is no such option on the ballot and sometimes what is good for my country or my state/region/community might be at odds with what is good for humanity as a whole or for the globally worst-off. Fortunately, there are other ways to act on a general concern ...
We mainly used two indicators for poverty: a poverty headcount, which was the absolute population under the poverty line, and a poverty rate, which represents the ratio of the poverty headcount to the total population. There are two notifications here. First, considering the reality, the poverty...
among developed nations. According to a report published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, communities of color are more susceptible to poverty because of "racist notions of racial inferiority and frequent denial of the structural forms of racism and classism" globally and within the U.S...
The results are relatively modest at the $2.15 line because the emissions of low-income countries are small relative to wealthier countries—even if they reach the income level necessary to meet the 3% target poverty rate with historical energy and carbon intensities (Fig.2b). By contrast, at ...
It is clear that the prevalence rate of subjective poverty is 0.44, while the rates of objective poverty are 0.22 (National objective poverty line) and 0.20 (Global objective poverty line), respectively. It indicates that the objective poverty measurement cannot reflect the subjective poverty ...