Jan 14, 2025 · ERS research in this topic area focuses on the economic, social, spatial, temporal, and demographic factors that affect the poverty status of rural residents.

Both rural poverty and spatial inequality are global phenomena, but like poverty in general, there are higher rates of rural poverty in developing countries than in developed countries.

Sep 4, 2025 · In 2023, 10.3 per cent of the world’s population—822 million people—lived below the updated extreme poverty line of $3.00 a day. Poverty remains overwhelmingly rural: more …

Rural areas are more likely to have higher rates of near-poverty, meaning income between 100 percent and 125 percent of the poverty level. These high rates of rural poverty hold across a …

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The relationship between rural poverty and welfare effects is a significant social issue, as poor areas face challenges like fragile livelihoods, nutritional imbalances, and inadequate policy …

Host sessions at the RSS Annual Meeting that explore the multifaceted nature of rural poverty, including housing, food insecurity, labor markets, environmental justice, and more.

Of an estimated 750 million people in the developing world classified as living in poverty, more than 80% live in rural areas, and about 85% of all absolute poverty is in these rural areas.

Addressing poverty and low employment in rural areas is complicated by the high degree of variation in demographic characteristics of the rural population and the economic outcomes in …

Sep 11, 2024 · Aided by surging household incomes, the poverty rate in rural America fell to 13.5%, the lowest since 2019 and the second-lowest in two decades, said the Census Bureau …