The Global Goals
Global Goals
One of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations in 2015, Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1 or Global Goal 1), calls for "no poverty." The official text is: "to bring an end to poverty in all its forms, everywhere." UN countries have agreed to "Leave No One Behind": a "powerful commitment to leave no one behind and to reach those farthest behind first” underlies the aim. The goal of SDG 1 is to eliminate all types of extreme poverty, including food shortages, clean drinking water and sanitation. Achieving this aim means finding solutions to new challenges posed by war and climate change. SDG 1 focuses not only on people living in poverty, but also on people's programmes and social policies, all of which encourage or avoid poverty.
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Facts and Figures
736 million
736 million people still live in extreme poverty.
10%
10 percent of the world’s population live in extreme poverty, down from 36 percent in 1990.
1.3 billion
Some 1.3 billion people live in multidimensional poverty.
50%
Half of all people living in poverty are under 18.
1 in 10
One person in every 10 is extremely poor.
80%
80 percent of people living on less than $1.90 are in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
