That article is highlighting deeply misleading facts. For example: &quot;between 1990 and 2010 there was an increase of 371 million people living on less than $5 a day&quot;. But during the same time period, the world added 1.6 billion people, and even using your source&#x27;s own data, that implies that the fraction of people living on less than $5 a day dropped from 75% to 60%.<p>In short, the claim that poverty is getting worse is utter bullshit. It requires either climate-change-denialist levels of willful ignorance, or a xenophobic definition of &quot;poverty&quot; that only counts people living in your own  much-richer-than-global-average country.