The aggregate poverty rate of those six cities is 17 .

In the US, the rate of relative poverty exceeds 20 .

Using comparable data and definitions provided by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the US has a poverty rate of 17.3 , roughly twice Sweden s poverty rate of 8.4 .

Life expectancy was low, and poverty was a serious problem.

According to the latest available data, the incidence of acute poverty is highest among the rural population (32 per cent), while acute poverty in urban areas was 9 per cent in 2004.

The national poverty gap, the average person's level of consumption below the poverty line, is 29 per cent, while the depth of poverty is concentrated in the rural areas.

Hard core poverty is set to be eliminated by 2010, with the overall poverty rate falling to 2.8 .

The extreme poverty rate has declined significantly between 1999 and 2010.

In addition to the high poverty rate, the inequality gap continued to be wide.

Noting, however, that the unemployment rate remains high, and that the poverty rate is increasing, we continue to recognize that the economic situation in Kosovo remains serious.

When the Government came to power in 2003, the extreme poverty rate was 20.1 per cent.

The rate of incidence of TB increased in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war and it is directly connected with the increase of poverty.

We are close to achieving two more goals the reduction of extreme poverty and under five child mortality rates.

India has experienced slower income growth than has China, which partly explains its higher poverty rate.

Cuts to child allowances and unemployment pay have caused a consistent rise in the poverty rate, and government income transfers designed to combat it make an even smaller dent in poverty now than they did in the 1980s.

However, as of 2012, an estimated 11.7 of the population lived below the poverty line and the official open unemployment rate was 6.1 .

Non money metric measures of poverty provide a different perspective on living conditions other than the income measure.

With that strategy, we aim, by 2009, to reduce the unemployment rate from 9.5 per cent to 5.1 per cent and to cut the poverty rate by half, to 8.1 percent.

Reducing the prevalence of HIV AIDS would also contribute to the achievement of other development goals, including the reduction of poverty, the reduction of child mortality and the reduction of maternal mortality.

China has pulled more than 680 million people out of poverty in the last three decades, leading a worldwide poverty decline of almost a billion people.

The poverty rate is 59 61 , and almost 25 of the population lives in extreme poverty.

The child poverty rate decreased from 17.6 percent in 2000 to 12.9 percent in 2002.

Nevertheless, the rate of poverty remains intolerably high and it is not likely that the continent will attain Millennium Development Goal 1 of reducing poverty by half by 2015 at current rates of growth.

Poverty in the Caribbean was generally characterized by large income disparities and was linked to a high rate of unemployment.

But faster growing East Asia has experienced significantly greater progress, with the poverty rate falling from 77 to 14 over the same period.

Africa s poverty rate in 2003 exceeds that of the next poorest region, South Asia, by 17 percentage points.

The World Bank avoids this problem by assuming that the poverty rate of any country without such data matches the region s average.

Based on his basic needs poverty threshold, the poverty rate in Canada, the poverty rate has declined from about 12 of Canadian households to about 5 since the 1970s.

Managing to halve poverty and provide universal access to primary education by 2015 was a daunting challenge.

Although the region s poverty rate has decreased by 10 percentage points in the last decade, 180 million people remain below the line, more than 70 million are still indigent, and a large percentage remains just above the poverty line.

If they grow faster, at the average rates recorded in the 2000 s, the poverty rate will fall to 5.5 .

But this approach has led to North Korea being assigned essentially the same poverty rate as China, even though the former regularly receives food aid from the latter.

Additionally, poverty, religion, tradition, and conflict make the rate of child marriage in Sub Saharan Africa very high in some regions.

The most recent estimates2 for 2004 indicate that the incidence of acute poverty rose to 21.5 per cent, while the overall incidence of poverty was 12 per cent.

These achievements would contribute to enhancing economic growth and reducing poverty, reducing child mortality and improving maternal health, and reducing the spread of HIV.

Empirical evidence shows that there is no invariant relationship between the rate of growth and the rate of poverty reduction, and that even in a context of faster growth, complementary policies specifically targeting poverty are required.

Second, regional policies that promote balanced growth could lower overall growth, thereby impeding poverty reduction.

The Chávez government has also been successful in its efforts to reduce poverty, as the World Bank has acknowledged since 2000, the percentage of poor households has fallen from 40 to 21 , and the rate of extreme poverty has dropped from 20 to 8 .

Based on the research on health conditions by the national experts, published papers, the World Bank poverty study in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the World Health Organization report, it has become fully clear that the poverty rate in Bosnia and Herzegovina is high.

For example, Indonesia s poverty rate soared from roughly 11 to 37 during the crisis, mainly owing to the massive depreciation of the rupiah.

Although economic growth has reduced South Asia s poverty rate, it has not fallen fast enough to reduce the total number of poor people.

To achieve the United Nations objective of halving poverty by 2015, special priority must be given to the fight against corruption at the national, regional and international levels.

During the East Asian crisis of 1997 1998, poverty rose sharply. For example, Indonesia s poverty rate soared from roughly 11 to 37 during the crisis, mainly owing to the massive depreciation of the rupiah.

Specifically, MDG1 set a target of reducing the extreme poverty rate in half by 2015, a goal that was met 5 years ahead of schedule.

A Palestinian family is three times more likely to be poor than a Jewish family 55.6 of Arabs live below the poverty line, compared with 30.8 among Jews.12 Moreover, senior officials in the Bank of Israel stated recently that the poverty rate is 30 higher than NII reported.