International Poverty Line 2024. This means that anyone living on less than $2.15 a day is considered to be living in extreme poverty. Poverty rate is measured as the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s).

Since the 1990s, the world bank has based its international poverty lines on the national poverty lines of the poorest. Around 700 million people live on less than $2.15 per day, the extreme poverty line.