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<p><strong>Explore by focus area</strong></p> <p><em><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/unit/human-development" title="People">People</a></em></p> <p><em><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/macroeconomics" title="Prosperity">Prosperity</a></em></p> <p><em><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/climatechange" title="Planet">Planet</a></em></p> <p><em><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/infrastructure" title="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</a></em></p> <p><em><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/digital" title="Digital">Digital</a></em></p> </div> </div> <div> <div>world-bank:category/prosperity</div> <div>44 percent</div> <div>of the world's population <strong>lives on less than $6.85 per day</strong>, the poverty line for upper-middle-income countries.</div> <div><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2024/10/15/ending-poverty-for-half-the-world-could-take-more-than-a-century?intcid=ecr_hp_dataA_en_ext">https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2024/10/15/ending-poverty-for-half-the-world-could-take-more-than-a-century?intcid=ecr_hp_dataA_en_ext</a></div> <div>Source: World Bank (2024), Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report</div> </div> <div> <div>world-bank:category/people</div> <div>733 million</div> <div>people globally <strong>suffered from malnutrition</strong> in 2023, a sharp increase since 2019.</div> <div><a href="https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/five-alarming-statistics-on-global-hunger?intcid=ecr_hp_dataB_en_ext">https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/five-alarming-statistics-on-global-hunger?intcid=ecr_hp_dataB_en_ext</a></div> <div>Source: FAO (2024), State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World</div> </div> <div> <div>world-bank:category/infrastructure</div> <div>80+ percent</div> <div>of the global population <strong>without access to electricity</strong> lives in Sub-Saharan Africa.</div> <div><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2024/06/11/progress-on-basic-energy-access-reverses-for-first-time-in-a-decade?intcid=ecr_hp_dataC_en_ext">https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2024/06/11/progress-on-basic-energy-access-reverses-for-first-time-in-a-decade?intcid=ecr_hp_dataC_en_ext</a></div> <div>Source: World Bank (2024), Tracking SDG7</div> </div> <div> <div>world-bank:category/digital</div> <div>850 million</div> <div>people globally lack any <strong>official form of identification</strong>.</div> <div><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/digital/overview?intcid=ecr_hp_dataD_en_ext">https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/digital/overview?intcid=ecr_hp_dataD_en_ext</a></div> <div>Source: World Bank, ID4D Global Dataset</div> </div> </div> <div class="section-metadata"> <div> <div>sec-spacing</div> <div>section-xxlarge</div> </div> <div> 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