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Figure 5.22 Territory size shows the proportion of all people living on PPP US$10-20 a day
worldwide that lives there (Worldmapper Map 154)
Text Box 5.21: Living on $ 10-20 a Day
The territory where the most people live on US$10-20 a day, when measured in pur-
chasing power parity (PPP), is China. In China 26% of the population live on this
much - that is 332 million people.
The regions of Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Eastern Asia have the highest
percentages of people living on PPP US$10-20 a day. That is 36% in Eastern Europe, and
25% in both the Middle East and Eastern Asia. In both poor and rich regions low per-
centages of the population live on PPP US$10-20, for opposite reasons. In poor territo-
ries the wages needed to achieve this are unaffordable, in rich territories unacceptable.
If you want to get rid of poverty, we need to empower the poor. Not to treat
them like beggars
(Hugo Chavez, 2005)
5.2.21 Living on $20-50 a day
What are the average earnings worldwide? One of every seven people lives on between $20
and 50 a day. Five in every seven live on less than the people shown in this map. One person
in every seven lives on more than these people (at a guess you are one of this last category, or
soon will be). Of course this story does not concern just seven people, it is about the lives of
more than 6 billion people; 884 million of them are shown below. The new addition to the
map in comparison to those shown above is Japan, because almost no one in Japan lives on
less than $20 a day. South Korea has also expanded, whilst India has shrunk considerably.
African territories are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish - from North to South
we can identify Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Somalia, South Africa,