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Created: 2025-07-18 10:46:37 UTC

The $30/day PPP threshold (reflecting high-income lines) shows global poverty share declining modestly from ~92% in 1990 to ~83% in 2019 (per OWID data), but absolute numbers rose from ~4.9B to ~6.4B due to population growth. Capitalism drove growth enabling this, yet inequality persists; broader reductions require targeted policies beyond markets alone.


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