Target 1.A: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1.25 a day
• The target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half was met five years ahead of the 2015 deadline.
• More than 1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty since 1990.
• In 1990, nearly half of the population in the developing regions lived on less than $1.25 a day. This rate dropped to 14 per cent in 2015.
• At the global level more than 800 million people are still living in extreme poverty.