No Poverty Lab

While past twenty-five years have seen significant improvements in global living standards, a vast share of the world still lives in various forms of poverty. Besides causing immediate health and humanitarian crises, poverty also establishes chronic socioeconomic issues wherever it emerges, deepening its hold on vulnerable and marginalized populations.

Learn how you can make a difference in these issues by joining the No Poverty Lab, part of Prepr’s Sustainable Innovation Lab series.

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UN Sustainable Development Goal #1: No Poverty

This UNESCO goal aims to eradicate all extreme poverty by 2030, as well as achieving a 50% reduction in global poverty as measured by each nation’s standards. Towards this end, it calls for improved policy and social protection systems, as well as more inclusivity in socioeconomic processes.

Key facts about poverty

10% of the global population still lives earning less than $1.90 a day, the international poverty line. In the least developed countries, 38% of the population are living below this poverty line.

Nearly half the world’s population lives in poverty, and lack of food and clean water is killing thousands each and every day.

Solving this challenge is crucial to unlocking enormous amount of human potential, and giving everyone in the world a chance to live a rich, fulfilling life.

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If all students in low income countries left school with basic reading skills, and world poverty would be cut in half if all adults completed secondary school.

Education and social systems are an important piece in tackling this issue. A UNESCO study shows that 171 million people could be lifted out of poverty – a 12% drop worlwide.

For every extra year of education, an individual’s earnings can increase by up to 10%, and every extra year of average educational attainment increases a country’s GDP by 37%.

As of 2018, one out of five adolescents, children, and youth globally are not in any types of school or education program.

In almost half of the world’s countries, fewer than one in two youths complete secondary school. The drop-out rate in upper-secondary schools is higher than lower-level schooling because some students leave school to earn an income.

57% of adolescents in Sub Saharan Africa are not in upper-secondary education, and 49% in Southern Asia have also dropped out of upper-secondary schooling.

There is a strong correlation between out of school youth and the income of the country. The world’s lowest income countries also have the highest percentage of out-of-school youth.

It is estimated that 56% of primary school students did not reach the minimum proficiency level in reading. Less than one in five countries guarantee 12 years of free and compulsory schooling.