Below you will find example sentences with "extreme poverty". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Extreme Poverty in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: extreme
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 27.2 words

Words in this phrase

extreme poverty

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • extreme can mean: Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost. Frequent word
  • poverty can mean: The quality or state of being poor; lack of money Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

living in extreme poverty 2× 42 and extreme poverty by 60 1× alongside eliminating extreme poverty and improving 1× assert that extreme poverty will be 1× based definition extreme poverty is defined 1× decline in extreme poverty but oxfam 1× defining extreme poverty income based 1× economic development extreme poverty rates have 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

according to world 1× almost 10 of 1× as philip alston 1× as the country 1× billie holiday grew 1× china s rapid 1×

Common sentence endings:

in extreme poverty 3× 2005 international prices 1× 5 per day 1× achieving this goal 1× can afford them 1× china and india 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

living 7× world 6× countries 5× lives 4× people 4× population 3× bank 3× line 3× rate 3× china 2× india 2× income 2×

Related phrases

poverty line extreme weather child poverty poverty rate extreme heat poverty rates extreme cold extreme points reducing poverty

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around extreme:

extreme weather 20× extreme points 8×

Just before it in the phrase index:

extreme points extreme heat extreme cold extraordinary meeting extraordinary evidence extraordinary claims

Just after it in the phrase index:

extreme weather extremely difficult extremely high extremely popular extremely strong exxonmobil guyana

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

extreme weather extreme heat extreme cold extreme points

Same ending:

child poverty reducing poverty

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "extreme poverty" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as living in extreme poverty, 42 and extreme poverty by 60, living, world and countries stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with poverty line, extreme weather, child poverty, extreme weather and extreme points, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with extreme poverty

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Billie Holiday grew up in extreme poverty. (7 words)

The poverty rate remained at 54% in 2001, with 24% of Peruvians living in extreme poverty. (16 words)

The country has also been persistently experiencing extreme poverty levels, battling its worst drought in 40 years. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

With this growing disparity between the north and the south, we shall eventually create two Nigerias – one, relatively well off and living above the poverty line and the other sinking deeper into the morass of extreme poverty. (37 words)

However, some academics, such as Andy Sumner, assert that extreme poverty will be increasingly found concentrated in Middle Income Countries, creating a "poverty paradox"—as the World's poor don't actually live in the poorest countries. (37 words)

But not by those who make an easy living out of the misery of others, or politicians who rely on extreme poverty and deprivation to create vote banks they need at election time out of desperate people. (37 words)

Example sentences (20)

The burden is even worse and made more painful given that Nigeria has the largest extreme poverty population of over 86.9 million Nigerians living in extreme poverty.

According to World Bank's revised estimates for extreme poverty coupled with regional economic development, extreme poverty rates have fallen significantly in China and India.

Defining extreme poverty Income-based definition Extreme poverty is defined by the International Community as earning less than a $1.25 a day, as measured in 2005 international prices.

In Malawi, where almost half of the population lives below poverty line and 25 in every 100 people in extreme poverty, only a few girls and women can afford them.

With this growing disparity between the north and the south, we shall eventually create two Nigerias – one, relatively well off and living above the poverty line and the other sinking deeper into the morass of extreme poverty.

According to the World Bank, a person can be said to be living in extreme poverty, if he or she lives below the poverty line of $1.90 or N693.5 per day.

As Philip Alston, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights in points out “employment alone is insufficient” to lift someone out of poverty.

China’s rapid growth over the past four decades has been responsible for much of the decline in extreme poverty but Oxfam said World Bank data showed the rate of poverty reduction had halved since 2013.

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While in office, his Movement Towards Socialism party has reduce poverty by 42% and extreme poverty by 60%, cut unemployment in half and conduct a number of impressive public works programs.

Indeed, of the 15 countries across the world where extreme poverty is rising per World Poverty Clock data, 13 are currently in Africa.

Over the last 25 years, more than a billion people have lifted themselves out of extreme poverty, and the global poverty rate is now lower than it has ever been in recorded history.

However, some academics, such as Andy Sumner, assert that extreme poverty will be increasingly found concentrated in Middle Income Countries, creating a "poverty paradox"—as the World's poor don't actually live in the poorest countries.

The poverty rate remained at 54% in 2001, with 24% of Peruvians living in extreme poverty.

Almost 10% of the global population lives in extreme poverty, many of whom live in countries such as India.

As the country continues its efforts to uplift the lives of those in extreme poverty, the programme’s expansion and resource allocation in the 2023 budget signify a promising step toward achieving this goal.

Billie Holiday grew up in extreme poverty.

But not by those who make an easy living out of the misery of others, or politicians who rely on extreme poverty and deprivation to create vote banks they need at election time out of desperate people.

Historical experience from many countries where noma cases used to be observed shows that noma control is possible, alongside eliminating extreme poverty and improving living conditions.

More than a third (38%) of people in sub-Saharan Africa were living in extreme poverty in 2019.

The country has also been persistently experiencing extreme poverty levels, battling its worst drought in 40 years.

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