Extreme poverty as share of global population in Africa 2021, by country. In 2021, nearly 13 percent of the world population in extreme poverty, with the poverty threshold at 1.90 U.S. dollars a day, lived in Nigeria. Yet Africa would remain the poorest region compared to the rest of the world.14 Feb 2021
Is Africa high in poverty?
Africa is considered the poorest continent on Earth. Almost every second person living in the states of sub-Saharan Africa lives below the poverty line. Particularly affected by poverty in Africa are the weakest members of society, their children and women.