The global poverty rate was cut from 42.3% in 1981 to 8.2% in 2019.

That is 80% reduction in less than 40 years, which means 1.3 billion people no longer being defined as living in poverty.

Sometimes hard to remember we live in the safest, most prosperous time in history. pic.twitter.com/7vgckTcoMw

— Pomp 🌪 (@APompliano) July 17, 2021