the agenda for sustainable development specifically calls for disaggregating povertyrelated indicators by population group to highlight those being left behind to analyse the circumstances that act as barriers to escaping poverty the analysis below uses latent class analysis lca and data from the gallup world poll governance corruption and economic performant e washington dc international monetai y fund pp individual country profiles can be produced upon demand by interested escap member states for a full list of country membership in income groupings please see annex table almost eight out of ten poor people also have young children and two out of three people are below the age of