The World Bank's simulations predict that the poverty rate will rise from about 17 percent in 2019 to about 20-23 percent in 2020 and from 55,000 to over 130,000 Macedonian citizens (depending on whether the crisis lasts one or two quarters) would fall. in poverty.
But now they say the fight against poverty may be more difficult than in previous years when the poverty rate, although minimal, was declining year by year in Macedonia.
In addition to our country, results are given by countries for Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. The simulations show that in addition to health effects, poverty could be significantly increased and the middle class in all countries could be reduced.
Nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide currently live in poverty. Worrying is the fact that half of them are under the age of 18.
Only one of the UN reports that there are 820 million people in the world fighting hunger every day, which would be an average of one in nine people worldwide.
