A poor Fisherman eating Lunch on the boat.
Bangladesh is one of the world's most densely populated countries with 150 million people, 31% of whom live below the national poverty line of US$2 per day. But Bangladesh's extreme poverty rate dropped to 12.9 percent in 2016, mentioned by the World Bank. The world bank president Jim Yong Kim appreciated the major development of Bangladesh in reducing poverty at a sort time where the poverty rate dropped to 18.5 percent in 2010 from 44.2 percent in 1991.Bangladesh is also making progress in reducing its poverty rate & there is big chance of overcoming extreme poverty rate by 2030 according to the World bank.