In this article, we will be taking a look at the 30 poorest countries in the world. To skip our detailed analysis, you can go directly to see the 5 Poorest Countries in the World. Global wealth ...

GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product, which measures a country's goods and services produced yearly. Its population must also be considered to get a clearer picture of how rich or poor a country is.

Progress on infectious diseases, which thrive in the poorest countries, has slowed sharply. If the share of people contracting malaria, in countries that have the disease, had continued to fall at ...

This year, the 75 poorest countries will have to repay $22 billion in debt to the People's Republic of China. This results ...

I'm Raka Banerjee. Srimathi Sridhar: And I'm Srimathi Sridhar. This episode is all about supporting the world's poorest countries as we face the ongoing challenge of multiple crises. Raka Banerjee: ...

For more on the impact of these tariffs, especially on the poorest countries of the world, we’re joined by Jayati Ghosh, economics professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She was ...

Argentina actually elected a libertarian president. Javier Milei campaigned with a chainsaw, promising to cut the size of government. Argentina's leftists had so clogged the country's economic ...

Burundi, which marked 60 years of independence on 1 July 2022, ranks as the poorest country on the planet in terms of GDP per capita. This must be understood in the light of a history punctuated ...

You may be hearing the phrase “loss and damage” in the coming weeks as government leaders meet in Egypt for the 2022 U.N. Climate Change Conference. It refers to the costs, both economic and ...

This private investment and foreign assistance could transform Moldova—Europe’s poorest country—into the continent’s first truly green country. With a population of just over 2.5 million ...

Somalia ranks 11th on the list of the world’s poorest countries as per IMF’s 2024 projections. While Somalia ranked on the 10th level in 2023, is expected to rise to the 11th rank in 2024 with ...