Although the rate of extreme poverty is declining worldwide, children are disproportionately impacted, according to two new reports. The number of people living in extreme poverty ― or on less than $1.90 a day ― has declined, per a report the World Bank released Sunday. In 2013, the year with the latest comprehensive data, 767 million people worldwide were living in extreme poverty, down from 881 million the previous year. However, among the world’s poorest, children are by far the worst-hit: Kids are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty, according to a joint World Bank and UNICEF report released Tuesday. “Children are not only more likely to be living in extreme poverty; the effects of poverty are most damaging to children.

Source: Huffington Post October 05, 2016 21:45 UTC