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What about trying the poorest this time?

First time in history. 

In 2025, an estimated 808 million people live in extreme poverty, which the World Bank defines as subsisting on less than $3.00 per day. The lifestyle for these individuals is characterized by a constant struggle for basic survival needs like food, clean water, and shelter, with limited or no access to essential services like healthcare and education. 

Number of People Living in Extreme Poverty
The World Bank recently updated the international poverty line to $3.00 a day (in 2021 Purchasing Power Parity) to better reflect national poverty standards in low-income countries. 

    Total number: Approximately 808 million people (about 1 in 10 people worldwide) are 

      estimated to be living in extreme poverty in 2025.
    Geographic concentration: Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in Sub-Saharan        Africa and in fragile, conflict-affected regions.
    Future outlook: If current trends persist, the global goal of eradicating extreme poverty 

     by 2030 will not be met, and hundreds of millions will remain in dire poverty for decades. 

Lifestyle on a Dollar a Day (Extreme Poverty)
Life on this minimal budget means every cent is a crucial decision between basic necessities, often forcing families to forgo non-food items, even if it compromises long-term well-being.  

 

Basic Needs: The budget must cover all fundamental needs, including food, water, and rudimentary shelter. Homes are often makeshift or simple structures, such as mud huts.
 

Food Security: Malnutrition is common, as individuals often cannot afford a sufficiently nutritious diet. People may have to ration existing supplies or engage in subsistence farming/foraging for food.
 

Water and Sanitation: Access to clean water is a major challenge. Family members, often children, spend hours daily walking long distances to fetch water from unsafe sources like dirty mud holes.
 

Health and Healthcare: Chronic illnesses and work-related accidents are frequent, but quality medical care is generally inaccessible or unaffordable. Avoidable diseases are a leading cause of death for children under five.
 

Work and Labor: Individuals typically engage in strenuous, often unsafe, manual labor in conditions such as farms, mines, or sweatshops. Despite working, many remain in extreme poverty.
 

Social Life and Future: The lifestyle involves immense hardship and vulnerability to shocks like illness, climate events, or economic instability. While prioritizing survival, people still have human desires for pleasure and saving for the future, but a lack of formal financial tools (like bank accounts) makes this challenging.  

 

Which region can hold a few hundred million and has clean water with place for tents or mud houses? Is that so hard, considering people buying Volkswagen for 3 million Dollars...?

 

Stupid wins against survival of the fittest, you say. 

 

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