Nigeria Overtakes India With Highest Number Of Poor People In The World - StatiSense

 NIGERIA RECORDED A HIGHER NUMBER OF POOR PEOPLE THAN INDIA

Population:

🇮🇳India — 1.45 billion

🇳🇬Nigeria — 232.68 million

Poverty Rate (< $3/day):

🇳🇬Nigeria — 41.8%

🇮🇳India — 5.3%

Population living in poverty:

🇳🇬Nigeria — 97.26 million

🇮🇳India — 76.85 million

India's 5.3% poverty rate resulted in 76.85 million people living in poverty.

Nigeria had 97.26 million people below the $3/day mark.

Nigeria had 20.41 million more poor people than India despite India having a population 1.2 billion people larger than Nigeria's total.