In 1990, more than 60% of people in East Asia were in extreme poverty. Now only 3.5% are.

Here’s an amazing fact: The number of people in extreme poverty fell by 114 million from 2012 to 2013. That is a simply massive one-year decline, and it’s not even the biggest drop in recent years. From 2010 to 2011, global poverty fell by 132 million people. From 2008 to 2013, the number fell by an average of 88 million people per year. If that rate of progress keeps up, global poverty will be eliminated in less than a decade.

Read more at: In 1990, more than 60% of people in East Asia were in extreme poverty. Now only 3.5% are. – Vox