Definition of global poverty.

[phk]

How would you define poverty if you were cumulatively looking at the world economy?

The current measure the UN uses is $1 a day, of which 20% of the globe is at or below, that is approximately 1.2 billion people. Which is slightly more than 4 times the US population.

I would define poverty as being around $5 a day.

[phk]

I would say being above the poverty line would include:
1) having a roof over your head
2) having clothes on your back
3) having something to eat

I was looking for Math, numbers, dollars...

You'd run into headaches trying to actually guage a %, if you based it off material wealth, due to different levels of economic deveolopment throughout the globe.

Being well-fed in the United Kingdom is probably not the same as being well-fed in say... Laos.

[phk]

I would say being above the poverty line would include:
1) having a roof over your head
2) having clothes on your back
3) having something to eat

I was looking for Math, numbers, dollars...

Well, sometimes it doesn't require any money…and other times it can't be bought at any price.  Cost of living is relative to time, place, and circumstance.

Well even if it didn't require money, there is still an indirect cost that relates to variable of time.

If it took some guy in Sub-Saharan Africa 10 hours to build a dwelling to live in, I can easily put a price-tag on the finished product and his labor.