The share of Uganda's population that lives below the poverty line has fluctuated over the last seven years, greatly …-20, which is comparable to the poverty rate of 30.7 percent in 2012-13. The pattern of fluctuating poverty rates is largely … driven by the experience of rural households. There was a surge in the poverty rate between 2012-13 and 2016-17, linked to …

youngsters attended schools, and the rate of extreme poverty declined from 54 percent in 1990 to 41 percent in 2015. Political … recent years. Poverty rates in many countries are the highest in the world. And notably, the number of poor in Africa is … rising because of population growth. From a global perspective, the biggest concentration of poverty has shifted from South …