Extreme poverty: hard-won gains, new risks ahead Daniel Gerszon Mahler June 18, 2026 This page in: English

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/extreme-poverty--hard-won-gains--new-risks-ahead For decades, the world made remarkable progress in reducing extreme poverty. This transformation, driven in large part by economic growth, lifted more than a billion people out of poverty. But as the Atlas of Global Development 2026 shows, progress is slowing, and in some places, reversing.