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Chart of the Greatest and Most Remarkable Achievement in Human History, and One You Probably Never Heard About
Submitted by Bradley Keyes on Fri, 2014-01-03 01:00
The chart could perhaps qualify as the “chart of the century” because it illustrates one of the most remarkable achievements in human history: the 80% reduction in world poverty in only 36 years, from 26.8% of the world’s population living on $1 or less (in 1987 dollars) in 1970 to only 5.4% in 2006.
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