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. 2022 Jun 28;13:3527. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-30727-4

Table 1.

Global flood exposure headcounts at different poverty thresholds for 2020.

Poverty threshold (consumption per day)
$1.90 $3.20 $5.50
Number of people in poverty (millions) 741.8 1812.0 2986.6
Share of global population living in poverty (%) 9.4 23.0 38.0
Number of that are flood-exposed and live in poverty (millions) 170.0 467.4 779.7
Share of people that are flood-exposed and live in poverty (%) 22.9 25.8 26.1
Share of global population that is flood-exposed and lives in poverty (%) 2.2 5.9 9.9