8.44% in 2018 and 10.79% in 2015.
@SoniaAlbrecht I looked at the link quickly and couldn’t find the relevant number. Where are you seeing it/what is it?
Click on data explorer, then table, then adjust the most recent date to 2023 and scroll down to world. It used to have an asterisk saying it was from a previous most recently available year instead, but now it doesn’t.
December data from the World Bank on poverty combined with December US Census Bureau data on world population again projects 8.6% :( https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2023/12/18/2023-in-nine-charts-a-growing-inequality https://www.forbes.com/sites/britneynguyen/2023/12/28/world-population-grew-by-over-75-million-people-in-2023-but-population-growth-rate-is-slowing/?sh=52158e8157e9
The World Bank projected 8.6% for 2023 on October 3rd. https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/poverty-back-pre-covid-levels-globally-not-low-income-countries?fbclid=IwAR0Uq0rSdA5lLVN98epzMbeL4zP8g3yrTp_GUu1kAvWCNAquFIDX783-KNU