7 Countries Where People Live In Extreme Poverty

6. Ethiopia

Ethiopia is one of the World's poorest countries. Out of a population of around 80 million people, 35 million people are living in abject poverty. In one of the world's poorest countries, where about 44 per cent of the population lives under the poverty line, more than 12 million people are chronically or at least periodically food insecure.
Most of them live in rural areas with agriculture as their main occupation. With 80 percent of Ethiopians dependent on agriculture as their main livelihood, severe arid conditions due to persistent lack of rainfall coupled with civil disputes have worsened Ethiopian poverty.

7. Comoros

Although the Comoros is a poor country, extreme manifestations of poverty such as famine or homelessness are rare. Limited employment opportunities due to slow economic growth contribute to a large extent to poverty in the Comoros.

The relatively high wages and low productivity levels have also contributed to increased poverty as the Comoros is not competitive in international markets. These high wages have constrained the growth of formal sector enterprises, with the number of formal sector employees growing by about 4 percent a year. This figure is above the population growth rate but not nearly enough to absorb a growing number of school dropouts.