in 2015 to 52.4% in 2023 (UN, 2025a). Never-population in lower-middle-income countries theless, 3.8 billion people worldwide remainedand over 90% in low-income countries lacked uncovered by social security networks in 2023, working poverty rate fell from 8.4% in 2015 to 6.9% in 2024. However, nearly one-third of the countries. Among these, nearly 7o% of the Note: The global extreme poverty rate refers to the proportion of the world's population living below the international poverty line of US$2.15 per day (2017 purchasing power parity). Data for 2023 and 2024 is from World Bank estimates. Source: World Bank