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No matter what poverty line you choose, the share of the global population below it has declined.
The World Bank's International Poverty Line is an extremely low poverty line. Set at $3 per day, it draws attention to the living conditions of the poorest people on the planet.
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What do death certificates tell us about what people die from?
When someone dies, a doctor or an official records the cause on a death certificate. Countries add up these records and send the totals to the World Health Organization (WHO), which publishes them in its Mortality
At the peak of the HIV epidemic, AIDS caused more than half of all deaths in some countries.
The HIV epidemic — which started in the early 1980s and progressed rapidly in the 1990s — has had lasting impacts that continue today. More than 800,000 people still die from HIV/AIDS
