Globally, approximately how many people subsist on less than $1.25 per day?

Experts at the world bank estimate that, in 2008, 1.29 billion people or 22% of the world’s population, lived in absolte poverty.put another way,the number of extremely destitute citizens of the world is four times greater than the current population of the us. The abjectly poor people subsist on $1.25 per day or less.