South Asia accounted for nearly two-fifths of the world’s poor, nearly half of the world’s malnourished children and was home to the largest number of stunted children in 2015. Despite this, the region had made significant progress in lifting people out of poverty—and between 1990 and 2015 its poverty rate sharply declined from 52% to 17%.
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Source: Phys.org