Gates Foundation report says pandemic exacerbated global poverty, education gaps
The first year of the Covid-19 pandemic brought with it higher global poverty rates and widening education gaps, but the world avoided some worst-case scenarios.
That's according to a new annual Goalkeepers report by the Seattle-based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which provides data on poverty, inequality and climate change.
Last year the report estimated the pandemic would wipe out 25 years of global vaccine process. The latest report, released Monday, said it hasn't been as bad as that, but global routine childhood vaccination rates have dropped to 2005 levels. It said 30 million children around the world missed vaccinations, about 10 million of them because of the pandemic.
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But the percentage of people living below the international poverty line rose more sharply than projected last year. According to the report, 9% of people lived below it, up from 6.7% in 2019, reversing a trend that has been declining for decades.
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