Share of extremely poor people in the world, 2000-2004 and 2010-2013 (percentages)

The region’s extremely poor populations accounted for 52 percent of the world’s extremely poor people during 2010–2013, down from 65 percent of the total during 2000–2004. Just over 50 percent of extremely poor people in the world lived in the region in 2010–2013.