Inequality 33, Decline in global poverty

Cool, useful chart below. Global poverty has declined, significantly. To read it, choose a level of annual income on the vertical or y-axis and then use the blue and red lines to find on the horizontal or x-axis the corresponding share of the world population living with less than that income.

If you think the poverty line should be $1,000 per person per year, the 2003 line shows that 48% of the world population was below this poverty line; and ten years later, in 2013, 29% was below this line. A decline of 20 % points in one decade relative to this poverty line.

Source: "No matter what extreme poverty line you choose, the share of people below that poverty line has declined globally", April 05, 2017 by Max Roser, https://ourworldindata.org/no-matter-what-global-poverty-line

The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting middle class status. Not all of course but many of them. The poor used to ride bicycles or cow de carabao, now they ride motorcycles or 2nd, 3rd-hand cars.
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See also:

Inequality 30, Filipinos in Forbes' world billionaires, March 04, 2016 

Inequality 31, Economics, politics and forcing equality, January 16, 2017 

Inequality 32, Free land distribution, free housing Kadamay, April 13, 2017