Sonntag, 22. Februar 2026

Mit Zahlen / Statistiken die Welt verbessern (10): Extreme Armut ist weltweit gesunken

Extreme poverty fell sharply worldwide – even excluding China.

Line chart of global extreme poverty rate, 1990 to 2025. Extreme poverty is defined as living below the international poverty line of $3 per day; data are adjusted for inflation and differences in living costs between countries. The chart shows global extreme poverty reduced from 43% to 10%, and the series excluding China reduced from 33% to 12%, with the two lines converging by around the mid-2000s and continuing to decline toward 2025. Y axis runs from 0% to 50%; x axis runs from 1990 to 2025. Data source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2025); OurWorldInData.org/poverty. License: CC BY.

Solarmedia präsentiert in loser Folge einige der Statistiken, die die britische Plattform «Our World in Data» täglich veröffentlicht, und die mit verbesserten Lebensbedingungen auf der Welt in Zusammenhang stehen (dem ist aber nicht immer so). Das geschieht in diesem Blog naheliegenderweise nicht zum ganzen reichen Schatz an Daten, der sich bei «Our World in Data» in den vergangenen Jahren aufgebaut hat, sondern vor allem rund um die Themen Energie, Wirtschaft und Nachhaltigkeit.

Hier zeigt sich, dass die extreme Armut auf der ganzen Welt in den letzten Jahrzehnten anteilsmässig zumindest deutlich zurückgegangen ist. Gilt auch ohne China.

Our World in Data schreibt dazu: The share of the world population living in extreme poverty has never declined as rapid as in the past three decades. The decline in China was particularly fast, and given that one in six peopin the world lives there, we’re often asked whether the decline in global poverty was only due to the decline in China. The chart shows the data that answers this question. In blue, we see the global decline. In red, we see the decline if we exclude China from the data. In the world outside of China, 33% lived in extreme poverty in 1990; by 2025, this share was down to 12%.

The large economic growth that lifted 940 million Chinese people out of extreme poverty since 1990 was a major contributor to the global decline in poverty. But the non-Chinese world also achieved a very large reduction. It is not true that the global decline in poverty was only due to China. Extreme poverty has declined in China and the rest of the world.

In the last three decades, the world has made progress against extreme poverty faster than ever before. But as we explain in a recent article, unless the poorest economies start growing, this period of progress against the worst form of poverty is over.
 
Quelle: Our World In Data
 
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