According to recent studies, about 30% of the Brazilian population lived below the poverty line in 2021. This means that almost one in three people in the country, or 29.4% of the population, lived in poverty until at least last year, and almost one in ten people, or 8.4%, struggled under extreme poverty. The number of people living below the poverty line was up 22.7% in 2021, and Brazil had 62.5 million people in poverty (daily income below $5.5) and 17.9 million in extreme poverty (daily income below $1.90, as defined by the World Bank)