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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

These lines are based on 2021 purchasing power parity rates, as well as updated national poverty lines. For Pakistan, 16.5 per cent of the population lived below the $3 international poverty rate in ...

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

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.