Crazy fact: 38% of the world population lived in extreme poverty in 1990.
I had no idea.
Worldwide? Extreme poverty where?
That’s a lot steeper drop than I would have guessed. I wonder if it’ll start to plateau.
Including food grown for consumption.
The majority (but not all) of reduction in global extreme poverty over this period can be attributed to reduction in poverty in China. China went from being a third of the global population with extremely high poverty rates to being a middle income country during that period. If you look at the data for the whole world except for China the trend isn’t as encouraging
“Extreme poverty” is kind of an arbitrary measure made up by think tanks. There are much better metrics for measuring poverty
Data is data.
“DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information. Aesthetics are an important part of information”
Nothing aesthetically pleasing or additionally insightful about some text pasted over a simple line chart.
The title is also vague – which population? Global?
Where is the data from? OECD? IMF? UN? A biased poll?
I’m sorry OP, this is a good try but 1. it could be better and 2. it’s not beautiful
“Extreme” poverty is defined by outdated income levels. Adjusted for inflation more people live in extreme poverty.
I think we should consider banning or somewhat restricting OP. It has been some time that OP just posts graphs of propaganda from the foundation they make part, independently if they are beautiful data or not. Not sure if we want to just be a window for propagandists.
How is a simple fucking line ‘beautiful data’?!
Which population? World? Country?
First thing I want to know when looking at this thing.
Going from gdp per capita to calvulate poverty makes absolutely no sense, since poverty is just as dependent on wealth inequality
So people could be living on $2.16 and not be classified as living in extreme poverty. This is useless. They are skewing the data to make us think capitalism isn’t as bad as it truly is.
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Source: [https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-in-extreme-poverty?tab=chart&facet=none&country=~OWID_WRL](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-in-extreme-poverty?tab=chart&facet=none&country=~OWID_WRL)
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Crazy fact: 38% of the world population lived in extreme poverty in 1990.
I had no idea.
Worldwide? Extreme poverty where?
That’s a lot steeper drop than I would have guessed. I wonder if it’ll start to plateau.
Including food grown for consumption.
The majority (but not all) of reduction in global extreme poverty over this period can be attributed to reduction in poverty in China. China went from being a third of the global population with extremely high poverty rates to being a middle income country during that period. If you look at the data for the whole world except for China the trend isn’t as encouraging
“Extreme poverty” is kind of an arbitrary measure made up by think tanks. There are much better metrics for measuring poverty
Data is data.
“DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information. Aesthetics are an important part of information”
Nothing aesthetically pleasing or additionally insightful about some text pasted over a simple line chart.
The title is also vague – which population? Global?
Where is the data from? OECD? IMF? UN? A biased poll?
I’m sorry OP, this is a good try but 1. it could be better and 2. it’s not beautiful
“Extreme” poverty is defined by outdated income levels. Adjusted for inflation more people live in extreme poverty.
I think we should consider banning or somewhat restricting OP. It has been some time that OP just posts graphs of propaganda from the foundation they make part, independently if they are beautiful data or not. Not sure if we want to just be a window for propagandists.
How is a simple fucking line ‘beautiful data’?!
Which population? World? Country?
First thing I want to know when looking at this thing.
Going from gdp per capita to calvulate poverty makes absolutely no sense, since poverty is just as dependent on wealth inequality
So people could be living on $2.16 and not be classified as living in extreme poverty. This is useless. They are skewing the data to make us think capitalism isn’t as bad as it truly is.