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Over 1.1 million Nigerians have slipped into extreme poverty in just four months, TheCable\u00a0has reported.<\/p>\n

This has brought the number of Nigerians living in extreme poverty \u2014 or below $1.90 a day \u2014 to 88 million.<\/p>\n

In June 2018 the Brookings Institution named Nigeria as the poverty capital of the world, with 86.9 million extremely poor people.<\/p>\n

Nigeria overtook India as the world poverty capital, despite being six times smaller in population than the Asian country.<\/p>

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According to the World Poverty Clock, created by Vienna-based World Data Lab, 88,011,759 Nigerians are currently living in extreme poverty.<\/p>\n

The World Bank, IMF, United Nations, and major development institutions across the world forecast that Nigeria will not hit the 2030 target for ending global poverty.<\/p>\n

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also suggest that West Africa, primarily, Nigeria will host 40 percent of the world\u2019s poorest people by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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