Poverty rates have increased in half of developed economies and in one-third of developing economies, while inequality rose in half of developed countries and one-fourth of developing economies.
Although Japan's poverty rate is not very different from that of other countries, the figure, after social security and other benefits have been distributed, is markedly high.
Major regions of the world have been exceptionally peaceful; extreme poverty rates around the globe are trending down; and more than two billion people, most notably in Asia, show spectacular improvements in their standards of living.
過去15年間で、貧困率は30%から50%以上に上昇し、失業率は35%から43%に上昇しました。
In the last 15 years, the poverty rate has risen from 30 to more than 50 per cent while unemployment is up from 35 to 43 per cent and now stands at 60 per cent among youth.
Even in many of the richest countries poverty rates have been rising for a decade, and the situation is rapidly deteriorating as austerity measures are rolling back social safety nets and weakening essential public services.
Researchers estimate that Japan's poverty rate has doubled since the nation's real estate and stock markets collapsed in the early 1990s, ushering in two decades of income stagnation and even decline.".
Since poverty rates in single-parent households are roughly five times as high as in two-parent households, this shift has helped keep the poverty rate up; it climbed to 13.2 percent last year.
Between 1970 and 1998, when aid flows to Africa were at their peak, the poverty rate in Africa actually rose from 11 per cent to a staggering 66 per cent.
In 2012, when economic growth only increased in real terms by 0.9 points and the unemployment rate remained constant, the poverty rate increased by a further 0.1 percent.
Even as the continent's population increased by 60 percent, grain prices fell, the average Asian consumed nearly a third more calories, and the poverty rate was cut in half.
Japan differs from other participating OECD countries in that child poverty increases to 14% after income redistribution, and in doing so, surpasses the OCED average.
Since most single-parent households are single-mother households, the chart indicates that the poverty rate of single mothers has declined from 62.0 percent in 2009 to 47.7 percent in 2014.
The economic crisis continues to affect heavily the U.S., according to the latest census figures(for 2009) that were anticipated by the Associated Press, the poverty rate in the U.S. has suffered a sharp rise.
According to United Nations sources, poverty rates in Venezuela were nearing 60 percent before 1998, and by 2015 were halved to less than 30 percent in spite of an economic crisis triggered by falling oil prices.
Some of the elderly in Japan also keep working out of necessity, but the poverty rate for seniors is far lower than Korea's, and many work part time to supplement pensions or simply to keep active.
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