We know that COVID-19 made life hard for many people, especially for about 70 million people in Asia who had been reduced to living in extreme poverty last year.
A recent report suggests that about 155.2 million people (3.9%) in Asia and the Pacific faced extreme poverty in 2022. Extreme poverty means that these people were living on $2.17 or ₹177 per day.
Although countries in Asia and the Pacific have come a long way since the pandemic ended, the increased cost of living has made it extremely hard for these countries to improve their poverty numbers.
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