International Poverty Line 2024 Map. The international poverty line, used to define extreme global poverty, is now revised to us$2.15 from us$1.90. The new extreme poverty line of $2.15 per person per day, which replaces the $1.90 poverty line, is based on 2017 ppps.

About 701 million people globally were in this situation in 2019. The international day for the eradication of poverty, commemorated on october 17th each year, originated in 1987 when a massive gathering in paris proclaimed poverty as a violation of human rights.