Extreme poverty

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Extreme poverty is the most severe type of poverty, defined by the United Nations (UN) as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information.

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Image: Max Roser based on World Bank and Bourguignon and Morrisson (2002)., CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.