POVERTY &

WEALTH
WHAT IS OUR
WHAT ARE THE SDG´S? COMMITMENT FOR
ACHIEVING THEM?
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by
all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared Members of the United Nations
blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, adopted the 2030 agenda for
now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable sustainable development, it
Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for establishes 17 different goals called
action by all countries - developed and developing - in a the SDGs to reach global peace and
global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and
prosperity for the people and the
other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that
planet.
improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur
economic growth – all while tackling climate change and
working to preserve our oceans and forests.

WHAT IS GOAL #1 AND HOW IS IT

MEASURED?
According to the Sdg tracker and the United Nations, goal #1 is,
by 2030, "reduce by at least half the proportion of men, women
and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions,
according to national definitions" . To achieve this it has 7 goals
or targets.

The way in which poverty is currently measured to be able to see

how serious the situation is and to be able to set the objectives
is with the "World Bank", where the international poverty line is
used as a parameter. According to the MPPN, Another way to
calculate the poverty rate is "by adding the proportion of total
poverty suffered by each poor person and dividing it by the total
number of poor people".

WHAT IS GOAL #1 PROGRESS

RIGHT NOW?

website, more than 700 million
According to the UN official
people, or 10 per cent of the world population, still live in
extreme poverty today, struggling to fulfill the most basic
needs like health, education, and access to water and
sanitation, to name a few. Worldwide, the poverty rate in
rural areas is 17.2 per cent—more than three times higher
than in urban areas.

SDG 1: Between 657 and 676 million people are currently

projected to live in extreme poverty in 2022, compared to
the pre-pandemic projection of 581 million.

MARÍA INES DÍAZ

MARÍA EMILIA DIAZ
GABRIELA FONSECA
LORENZA HUMARA

Activity: Wealth and Poverty

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