Since 1999, the total number of extreme poor has declined by an average of 50 million per year. Moreover, in 2005, for the first time in recorded history, poverty rates began to fall in every region of the world, including Africa.As aforementioned, the number of people living in extreme poverty has reduced from 1.9 billion to 766 million over the span of the last decades. If we remain on our current trajectory, many economists predict we could reach global zero by 2030–2035, thus ending extreme poverty. Global zero entails a world in which fewer than 3% of the global population lives in extreme poverty (projected under most optimistic scenarios to be fewer than 200 million people). This zero figure is set at 3% in recognition of the fact that some amount of frictional (temporary) poverty will continue to exist, whether it is caused by political conflict or unexpected economic fluctuations, at least for the foreseeable future. However, the Brookings Institution notes that any projection about poverty more than a few years into the future runs the risk of being highly uncertain. This is because changes in consumption and distribution throughout the developing world over the next two decades could result in monumental shifts in global poverty, for better or worse.Others are more pessimistic about this possibility, predicting a range of 193 million to 660 million people still living in extreme poverty by 2035.
APL is an abbreviation, acronym, or initialism that may refer to:

Science and technology
132524 APL, an asteroid
Abductor pollicis longus muscle, in the human hand
Acute promyelocytic leukemia, a subtype of acute myelogenous leukemia
Applied Physics Letters, a physics journal
Nampula Airport (IATA airport code: APL), in Mozambique

Computers
.apl, the file extension of the Monkeys Audio metadata file
AMD Performance Library, renamed Framewave, a computer compiler library
APL (programming language), an array-based programming language
APL (codepage), the character set for programming in APL
Address Prefix List, a DNS record type
Address programming language, an early high-level programming language developed in the Soviet Union
Advanced Physical Layer, an extension of Ethernet 10BASE-T1L for field devices
Alexa Presentation Language, a language for developing Amazon Alexa skills

Software licences
Adaptive Public License, an Open Source license from the University of Victoria, Canada
AROS Public License, a license of AROS Research Operating System
Arphic Public License, a free font license

Organizations
APL (shipping company), a Singapore-based container and shipping company
Aden Protectorate Levies, a militia force for local defense of the Aden Protectorate
Advanced Production and Loading, a Norwegian marine engineering company formed in 1993
Afghanistan Premier League, an Afghan Twenty20 cricket league
Afghan Premier League, a mens football league in Afghanistan
American Party of Labor, a Marxist-Leninist anti-revisionist party in the US
American Patriot League, a proposed American football spring league
American Premiere League, a Twenty20 cricket league in the US
American President Lines, a container transportation and shipping company
American Protective League, a World War I-era pro-war organization
Applied Physics Laboratory, at Johns Hopkins University
Association of Pension Lawyers, UK
Aurora Public Library (disambiguation)
Irish Anti-Partition League, a Northern Ireland political organisation

Other uses
apl.de.ap (born 1974), pseudonym of Allan Pineda Lindo, Filipino-American musician
Auxiliary Personal Living, a US Navy hull classification for barracks craft; see Auxiliary ship § Support