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. 2007 Oct 22;335(7625):873. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39349.507315.DE

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The world's countries shaped with area in proportion to the number of people living on ≤$10 a day (from Worldmapper, www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=153). Some 3.5 billion people, more than half the world population, survive on the equivalent, or less, of what $10 in the US would buy a day