11000 dollars a year
The best way to answer this is to note that there are different measurements of poverty and different levels of poverty. People who live in extreme poverty live on less than US$ 1 per day, while those living in moderate poverty live on less than US$ 2 per day.
For a family of 2 the US poverty line is $15,730. For a family of four the poverty line is $23,850.
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/09poverty.shtml{| |+ The 2009 Poverty Guidelines for the48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia |- ! scope="col" | Persons in family ! scope="col" | Poverty guideline | 1 $10,830 2 14,570 3 18,310 4 22,050 5 25,790 6 29,530 7 33,270 8 37,010 For families with more than 8 persons, add $3,740 for each additional person. |}
Several milion and it depends on what it means to be poor. For instance a working family of 4 ( 2 parents and 2 children) with a income under 31,000 a year is considered poor today. There are 25 million children who are homeless in this country, not to mention the numerous street population. In these cases there can't be an accurate count because many of these people move around and have no addresses from day to day.
yes Ethiopia is in poverty it is the 2 most populated place in Africa plus some people live on 25c a day it is in abject poverty
While there are no real hard numbers, thousands die because of poverty each year. Over 10,000 people die each because of inadequate medical care related to poverty. In itself, that is equal to about 30 people a day.
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Rural poverty has declined more slowly in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Iran, etal), where the incidence is still more than 45% for extreme poverty and over 80% for US$2/day poverty. South Asia has the largest number of extremely poor rural people (500 million) of any region or sub-region.
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