The note also features an in-depth pro le of extreme poverty at a global scale using household survey data collected in 73 countries during the 2000s. On the one hand, it o ers valuable insights as to where poverty is deeply seated and where stronger e orts are needed: more than three quarters of those living in extreme poverty are in rural areas and nearly two thirds of the extremely poor earn a living from agriculture. On the other hand, some results are alarming and disturbing. More than one-third of the extremely poor individuals are children under age of 13, and half of children in LICs are in extreme poverty.