Nigeria Ranks Third Among Countries Having Extremely Poor People, World Bank Says

Nigeria is third among countries with the highest population of extreme poor or people with abject poverty in the world, the World Bank has said.

In its latest report on the world's poverty index, titled 'Prosperity for All - Ending Extreme Poverty', the World Bank listed the top five countries, in terms of numbers of poor, as India (with 33 percent of the world's poor), China (13 percent), Nigeria (7 percent), Bangladesh (6 percent) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (5 percent).

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