The prosperity gap has shrunk quite a lot, and these trends are broadly in the right direction since ~1990: https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/updated-est

The prosperity gap has shrunk quite a lot, and these trends are broadly in the right direction since ~1990: https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/updated-estimates-prosperity-gap https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/updated-estimates-pr... For extreme poverty progress has recently slowed down, the trend there is still positive but very slow - improvement there is needed.