The World Bank has revised the global income thresholds used to measure poverty, resulting in a big increase in Pakistan's poverty headcount, which now stands at 44.7%. However, experts caution that ...

Under the World Bank’s old definition of $2.15 per capita threshold for low income countries (LICs), 4.9pc of Pakistan’s ...

The World Bank has released a new assessment of poverty in Pakistan, according to which the poverty rate in Pakistan has ...

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – The World Bank has updated its global poverty assessment criteria, pushing Pakistan’s poverty rate ...

The World Bank has also updated the extreme poverty line from $2.15 to $3 per person per day. Because of the revision in the ...

The World Bank has updated its international poverty lines as part of a routine global revision to reflect evolving price ...

Poverty rate has increased from 39.8pc to 44.7pc. ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – The World Bank (WB) has released a new assessment ...

The World Bank has revised the global poverty line, declaring 44.7% of Pakistan’s population as poor under a $4.20/day benchmark. Nearly 40 million Pakistanis now live in extreme poverty, earning less ...

ISLAMABAD: The poverty rate in Pakistan is estimated to stand at 42.4 percent in fiscal year 2025, with population growing at nearly 2 percent annually, this translates to 1.9 million additional ...

"The revisions help position Pakistan’s poverty levels in a global ... However, because national poverty lines differ widely, the resulting poverty rates are not comparable internationally.