UNITED NATIONS, June 9 (UPI) -- The United Nations reports poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa grew in the 1990s, pushing the region economically farther from the rest of the world.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday said while the rest of the world was on track to meet the goals for reducing poverty, the number of people living in extreme poverty in Sub-Sahara Africa jumped from 227 million in 1990 to 313 million in 2001.
"There has been a massive, unprecedented reduction in poverty worldwide since 1990, led by Asia," Annan said in releasing The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005. "But, at the same time, the very poorest are getting poorer in Sub-Saharan Africa."
Daily income in Sub-Saharan Africa dropped from 62 cents a day to 60 cents from 1990 to 2001. Almost half of the world's deaths in children under the age of 5 occurred in the region where over a third of youngsters do not attend school.
