More than 40 percent of extremely poor people in the world will be living in Nigeria and DR Congo by 2050, a report by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has revealed.

In the 2018 report released, yesterday, the foundation said by 2050, Nigeria will have 152 million people in extreme poverty, out of a projected population of 429 million.

It blamed this on the lack of investment in human capital to correspond with the increasing population growth.
Nigeria is currently the seventh most populous country in the world with an estimated population of 198 million.

The annual report, produced in partnership with Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, IHME, at University of Washington, tracks progress being made on the United Nations sustainable development goals, SDGs.

In June, Brookings Institution reported that Nigeria had overtaken India as the nation with the highest number of poor people, with 87 million of its citizens in extreme poverty.

International Monetary Fund, IMF, had also said in March that Nigerians are getting poorer due to the lack of coherent and comprehensive economic reforms.

The goalkeepers report said while more than a billion in the world have lifted themselves out of extreme poverty since 2000, “extreme poverty is becoming heavily concentrated in sub-Sahara African countries.”
“By 2050, that’s where 86 per cent of the extremely poor people in the world are projected to live. The challenge is that within Africa, poverty is concentrating in just a handful of very fast-growing countries.

“By 2050, for example, more than 40 percent of the extremely poor people in the world will live in just two countries: Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria. Even within these countries, poverty is still concentrating in certain areas.”

The foundation said to address the poverty crisis, adequate investment would need to be made in young people, especially in areas of education, health and human capital development.

“Investing in young people’s health and education is the best way for a country to unlock productivity and innovation; cut poverty, create opportunities and generate prosperity,” the report added.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/09/over-40-of-worlds-poorest-will-live-in-nigeria-congo-by-2050-report/

We jump and pass.

donvicky2007:
We jump and pass.

THAT WILL ONLY COME TO PASS IF THIS APC GOVERNMENT CONTINUE.

And this is coming after The federal government has claimed to have moved 10,073 million Nigerians from poverty to prosperity

SMH ...

gare:


THAT WILL ONLY COME TO PASS IF THIS APC GOVERNMENT CONTINUE.

That is why we need to vote them out before they sell our future.

Very true with the population explosion the country continues to have with no means of feeding them, we might just get to a billion Nigerians with 700 million living in extreme poverty and therefore, the headquarters of every ills in the world. When one illiterate man from a particular region will have 20 wives with 250 children, what do we expect?

With Buhari's policy of impoverishment, the North is finished.

gare:


THAT WILL ONLY COME TO PASS IF THIS APC GOVERNMENT CONTINUE.

We are already the headquarters of poverty.

Time to move out with the family