{"id":3555,"date":"2013-05-14T13:01:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T17:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2013-05-14T13:04:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T17:04:43","slug":"percentage-of-the-population-living-on-2-or-less-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/14\/percentage-of-the-population-living-on-2-or-less-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Percentage of the Population Living on $2 or Less a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/surviving-on-a-few-dollars-per-day-world.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3556\" alt=\"surviving on a few dollars per day world\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/surviving-on-a-few-dollars-per-day-world.png\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/surviving-on-a-few-dollars-per-day-world.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/surviving-on-a-few-dollars-per-day-world-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/surviving-on-a-few-dollars-per-day-world-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/surviving-on-a-few-dollars-per-day-world-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a>MIT economists <a href=\"http:\/\/economics.mit.edu\/faculty\/banerjee\">Abhijit V. Banerjee<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/economics.mit.edu\/faculty\/eduflo\/\">Esther Duflo<\/a>, conducted surveys in developing nations to see which countries survive on a few dollars per day. The cities or countries where people are known to live on meager dollar amounts on a daily bases are not that surprising, but the percentage of the population living under these conditions is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In Udaipur and Hyderabad (India) a staggering 94% of the population survive on $2 or less per day. In Bangladesh, 69.4% go on $2 or less per day. In Ghana, 67.7% survive on $2 or less per day. In Guatemala, 64.8% of the population survive on $2 or less per day.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/awesome.good.is\/transparency\/web\/1106\/global-poverty\/flash.html\"><em>GOOD: Living on Less<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Percentage of the Population Living on  or Less a Day' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/14\/percentage-of-the-population-living-on-2-or-less-a-day\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Percentage of the Population Living on  or Less a Day' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/14\/percentage-of-the-population-living-on-2-or-less-a-day\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Percentage of the Population Living on  or Less a Day' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/14\/percentage-of-the-population-living-on-2-or-less-a-day\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Percentage of the Population Living on  or Less a Day' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/14\/percentage-of-the-population-living-on-2-or-less-a-day\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, conducted surveys in developing nations to see which countries survive on a few dollars per day. 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