Ans: A person who earns less than two dollars a day falls in the category of the
poor, this is the global standard. Pakistan is facing extreme poverty issues.
. According to a survey the number of people living below poverty line rose
from 69 to 87 million in one financial year i.e. 2019-2020. According to IMF
and World Bank surveys 22 percent of Pakistan households suffer from food
deficiency, 46% children suffer childhood diseases due to imbalanced diet,
23 million children are out of schools due to extreme poverty.
. Seventy to eighty percent rural population is living below poverty line. In
1994, the World Bank observed that economic progress in Pakistan did not
benefit the poor; it rather hit the common man adversely. The situation has
still not changed; it has rather deteriorated since that time.
. The rich 20 percent of the population have 50 percent share of the national
income and this ratio is increasing, while die 20 percent, lowest income
group has only 6 percent share of the national income. According to a latest.
World Bank report poverty ratio enhanced by 5.4 percent in the year 2020.