But one estimate suggests around three-quarters of India's 1.21 billion people live below the poverty line.
When over 12 million children live below the poverty line, we are not a post- poverty America.
But one estimate suggests that nearly 77% of India's 1.21 billion people live below the poverty line.
Despite its ever-growing population of nouveau riche, more than 400 million Indians still live below the poverty line.
However, he concedes that 18% of Bosnians live below the poverty line, and another 30% just above it.
Bushwick is recovering now, but half of the children under age 18 still live below the poverty line.
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It was a sobering but educational look at Indonesia, where some 40 million people live below the poverty line.
The World Bank estimates that 42% of Yemenis live below the poverty line.
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Well-founded doubts also exist about whether such schemes really reach the 250m-300m Indians who live below the poverty line.
In the country of 34 million people, about one-fourth live below the poverty line, according to the CIA World Factbook.
The oil revenues of Equatorial Guinea, where three-quarters of the population live below the poverty line, are a state secret.
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Officially, 37% of India's 1.21 billion people live below the poverty line.
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According to figures cited by the World Bank in a 2005 study, a fifth of the country's population live below the poverty line.
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The economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina remains shaky--20% of the population live below the poverty line and unemployment is at an estimated 20%.
Although the economy grew about 7% in 2012, unemployment stands at 16% and more than 30% of the population live below the poverty line.
Most of the people Mr Perry is referring to live below the poverty line, and still pay payroll taxes on what little they earn.
For one, the authorities don't have proper data on the very poor - officially, 37% of India's 1.2 billion people live below the poverty line.
"Over 600, 000 children live below the poverty line and London is home to some of the most deprived boroughs in the country, " said Mr Johnson.
Tens of millions of Bangladeshis still live below the poverty line.
Some two-thirds of Zambia's 12m-plus people live below the poverty line.
But its important to remember that this is still a poor country - where almost 70% of people are thought to live below the poverty line.
This is a country where 70% of the 19 million citizens live below the poverty line, where one in four children die before the age of 5.
To many foreigners it seems almost unseemly: how can a country talk so proudly when so many of its people 260m at the government's count live below the poverty line?
The majority of Nigerians frown at such flagrant displays of opulence, particularly on the path of their clergymen, given that 60% of Nigerians still live below the poverty line.
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Roughly 60 percent of the YES kids live below the poverty line, and all kinds of unpredictable problems arise as they transition from Lennox or Buford to Brentwood and Harvard-Westlake.
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Her story is a familiar one in a country where 81% of Filipinos are devout Roman Catholic and 30% live below the poverty line, according to the Philippine National Statistics Office.
The plan was meant to make life easier for people like Bety Bustillo, age 56, and her husband, Luis, 55, two of the more than 20% of Galveston's population who live below the poverty line.
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