young people between and years of age are more likely to be among the working poor per cent of employed young people were living in poverty in compared with per cent of working adults a total of per cent of people received social assistance or social protection benefits in lowincome countries compared with per cent in uppermiddleincome countries by poverty rates using the income measure of day in africa excluding north africa had been reduced by at least per cent from the rate of per cent to per cent world bank b with the fastest reductions occurring between and