Study the Graph and do the following:

Graph: Number of poor by region ($1 per day) in millions)



1. Identify the areas of world where poverty ratios have declined.


2. Identify the areas of globe which has the largest concentration of the poor.

1. In China, East Asia, and South Asia, the poverty ratios have declined. The socio-cultural and economic factors also are responsible for poverty.


2. The Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest concentration of the poor. People living in poverty in this region were 54 percent in 1990, and have decreased meagerly to 41 percent in 2013. This dip is disproportionate to other regions which have shown drastic decline in the percentage of poor over the same period.


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