World poverty is an issue that affects the entire world to some extent or another regardless of whether it is present in developed or developing nations. It is a harsh reality to accept that almost 3 billion around the world, almost half of the world’s population live in relative poverty without access to better employment opportunities and hence the chance for a better lifestyle. The statistics that represent world poverty is quite alarming when readers analyze the immense disparities in terms of the distribution of wealth in practically all nations around the world. Other world poverty statistics give an insight to the increase of poverty across the globe, especially in emergent nations and the aggravating social problems caused by this emergence.