Poverty line is an indicator of the minimum income from which statistically the items necessary for daily life can be purchased. With less income, it means that the family life can not be supported.
About Poverty line of world
In 1990, the World Bank researcher group proposed a measurement method using world standards of poor countries in order to grasp the number of worldly poor people. At that time, we verified the country-specific poverty line of several countries of poverty. A purchasing power parity (PPP) converted them into US dollars. And calculated their average value was about 1 dollar per day per person .
In October 2015, the international poverty line was revised to $ 1.90 per day.
The poverty line is not a strict indicator. It varies from country or institution. I write an article expressing the world poverty line on this site.
Absolute poverty and relative poverty
I learned that there is poverty in Japan as well when I started to investigate it soon. When I asked to Mr. Fukagawa who a member of my local location assembly, I could know the poverty has 2 types, absolute poverty and relative poverty. And Japan have solved absolute poverty.
Although there is relative poverty in Japan. I believe my theme of “continuing to fight poverty” is a necessary thought for Japan.