10 Facts about World Poverty That Will Shock You
2. That’s 1 billion people lifted out of acute poverty in the past 20 years!
Let’s put in perspective. 1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the last 20 years! That’s around 3 times the population of the United States of America. It’s an unfathomably large number of people who have experienced remarkable increases in their quality of life since 1990. Think of it this way, that’s the same amount of time that the hit animated series The Simpsons has been on television. Many of these people live in former Soviet states, and were able to witness the miracle of economic growth when the USSR collapsed in 1991, ending the cold grasp of communism over Eastern Europe.
