How close are we to eradicating global poverty?

Eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development resolves to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and to heal and secure our planet.

The first Sustainable Development Goal aims to “End poverty in all its forms everywhere”. Its seven associated targets aims, among others, to eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty, and implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable. Priority actions on poverty eradication include: • improving access to sustainable livelihoods, entrepreneurial opportunities and productive resources; • providing universal access to basic social services; • progressively developing social protection systems to support those who cannot support themselves • empowering people living in poverty and their organizations; • addressing the disproportionate impact of poverty on women; • working with interested donors and recipients to allocate increased shares of ODA to poverty eradication; and • intensifying international cooperation for poverty eradication.