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UN report says 1.1 billion people living in acute poverty

Palestinian children queue to receive food cooked by a charity in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 16, 2024 [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]

More than one billion people live in acute poverty, with nearly half of them in countries experiencing conflict, according to a new United Nations report.

Countries at war have higher levels of deprivation across all indicators of “multidimensional poverty”, according to an index published on Thursday by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), reporting “markedly more severe” disparities in nutrition, access to electricity, and access to water and sanitation.

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