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Millennium Development Goal 1:
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

The Millennium Development Goals call for reducing the proportion of people living on less than US$1 a day to half the 1990 level by 2015: from 28.3 per cent of all people in low and middle income economies to 14.2 per cent. The goals also call for halving the proportion of people who suffer from hunger between 1990 and 2015.
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World statistics
 
(million)
Total population, 2003:
6,273
Total rural population, 2003:
3,257
People living on less than US$1 a day:
1,101
Extremely poor people in rural areas:
800
People living on less than US$2 a day:
2,733
Source: World Bank
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