Poverty Jumps When Line Moves

The World Bank lifted its extreme-poverty threshold to $3/day (2021 international dollars), adding 125 million people to the count even as updated data show higher incomes among the poorest. Because the International Poverty Line mirrors low‑income countries’ national poverty lines—which rose in real terms—the global metric can climb without the world getting poorer. — It warns that global-poverty headlines can reflect definitional updates rather than economic deterioration, so targets and funding should be interpreted through the methodology.