Poverty in Niger
Poverty in Niger. Poverty is very common in Niger. This experience has been there for a very long time, which make it one of the poorest countries in the world according to the United Nations in 2015. It is one of the least-developed countries of 188 in the world. In addition, in the 2015 Global Finance Magazine , Niger was number 7 among the 23 poorest countries of the world. Two out of every three persons live below poverty line and, more than 40% of the population earn less than $1 per day. Some of the problems facing Niger are Civil war, terrorism , illness, disease, poverty and hunger where hunger is their major problem.They have the population of 19,899,120 out of which 45.7% live below poverty line.