Mmmh, they say they adjust the poverty threshold based on actual needs, yet they use a single $4 threshold for the whole of the US, and the whole of Europe...

Mmmh, they say they adjust the poverty threshold based on actual needs, yet they use a single $4 threshold for the whole of the US, and the whole of Europe... And then they're not critical about their methodology when it consistently shows that warmer countries have a larger chunk of the population that is very poor. Perhaps it's easier to live on $4 in Spain than it is in Denmark. And perhaps it's easier to live on $4 in California than it is in Michigan... When it comes to extreme poverty anyway, we're looking at the very tail of the bell curves, so the stats are somewhat shady there. It's not very clean to compare tail stats between countries. The thing that can be compared is the evolution of these numbers over time. If in the US more and more people are living with less than $4 a day, that is concerning.