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If you adjust for population growth and look at the percentage of people living in poverty, the graph looks even better. Let’s keep pushing to reduce it further and, hopefully, solve the recent quasi-plateau.

except in Africa, no?

PIP achieves comprehensive global coverage by combining income and consumption surveys, and also includes non-monetary income. It's the official source used to track the UN's goal of ending poverty.

In recent decades, the world has made remarkable progress against extreme poverty, defined as living below the International Poverty Line of $3 per day. In 1990, 2.3 billion people lived in extreme poverty. Since then the number has fallen by nearly two-thirds, to 826 million.

But progress has slowed recently, and nearly one in ten people worldwide still live in extreme poverty. If you want to learn more, our colleague Max Roser wrote an article about the future of progress against this worst kind of poverty: ourworldindata.org/end-progress...