Recent global data shows billionaire fortunes reaching records while poverty reduction has stalled and hunger remains widespread.
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Because of all the government fraud around the world. Michael Jackson said it best in his song. “They don’t care about us.”
Sudan faces a new famine threat as drought destroys crops and food aid runs short.
https://www.reuters.com/world/new-famine-risk-haunts-war-torn-sudan-with-el-nio-driven-drought-2026-10-23/
Sudan’s rainy season brought its lowest rainfall in more than 30 years. The UN-backed hunger monitor reported 5.1 million people facing severe hunger in June, and the World Food Programme warns drought could push another 350,000 into severe hunger by the end of 2026. At a displacement camp housing around 700,000 people, food rations have already been cut in half as aid funding falls short.
Global multidimensional poverty rises for the first time since the index began.
https://www.undp.org/press-releases/global-multidimensional-poverty-rises-first-time-2010
A new UNDP and Oxford University assessment estimates that 1.2 billion people now experience overlapping deprivations in areas such as housing, sanitation, electricity, nutrition and education, an increase of 51.5 million from the previous update. More than half are children.
The World Bank estimates that more than 824 million people live in extreme poverty.
https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/september-2026-global-poverty-update-from-the-world-bank–one-in
That is roughly one in every ten people worldwide living on less than $3 a day. Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan remain especially exposed, with extreme poverty rising in the latter region.
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