The World Bank estimates that dire poverty in China, calculated as individual income of $1 per day, has been reduced from about 500 million people at the start of the 1980’s to less than 90 million in 2000. Meanwhile, poverty rates in South America have remained relatively constant.
中国与拉美地区的经济发展情况相差悬殊。据世界银行估计，中国在上世纪80年代初有约5亿人口极度贫困，日均收入只有1美元，但在2000年这个人数已经减少到九千万。相比之下，南美的贫困率却一直居高不下。