Practice question · Estimate
Since 1990, East Asia’s growth pulled people out of extreme poverty on a historic scale. Set the slider to the rough number, in billions, lifted out worldwide.
Estimate on a scale from 0 to 3 billion (3).
Hints
- China alone accounts for most of it.
- Roughly a billion people.
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Why
About 1 billion people crossed out of extreme poverty since 1990, the largest and fastest such exit in history, driven mostly by compounding growth in China and its neighbors. Global inequality between countries fell even while inequality within many countries rose.
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