The aggregate additional annual income needed to lift every individual in the developing world out of extreme poverty (the Aggregate Poverty Gap) has been reduced by more than half for the developing world. For LICs, it has increased by 33 percent between 1981 and 2010. This is due to an increase in the number of extremely poor individuals in LICs by more than 100 million, and the stagnant average income among the poor that remained almost as low in 2010 as it was back in 1981.