There has been marked progress on reducing poverty over the past decades. According to the most recent estimates, in 2015, 10 percent of the world’s population lived on less than $1.90 a day, down from nearly 36 percent in 1990. Progress has been uneven, and the number of people in extreme poverty remains unacceptably high. Given growth forecasts, the world is not on track to end extreme poverty by 2030.