Actually, have internet here for a bit.  Can anyone find the answer to the above?

What I eventually want to do is find data that shows how many people living in poverty are earning less than 9-$11, how many are earning 7-$9, 5-$7, 3-$5, $1.35-$3, and < $1.35 ($1.35 / day is the international poverty line).

However, I can't find anything.  Researchers don't seem to present data in that way. 

$1.35 / day - Does this mean that everyone earning at least that much must, therefore, not be living in poverty?   No.  It doesn't mean that.  Does it mean that everyone living below that benchmark is automatically living in poverty? No.  So what does this international poverty line mean? 

All the international poverty line suggests is that it is generally POSSIBLE to live beyond poverty earning at least more than $1.35 / day.  Where exactly someone could live beyond poverty on $1.35 a day, however, is unclear, but I assume it must be possible SOMEWHERE.  The international poverty line also suggests that it is generally IMPOSSIBLE for people earning less than $1.35 / day to live beyond poverty pretty much ANYWHERE on Earth.

However, this is not to say that there aren't at least some people earning less than $1.35 who are not living in poverty.  In fact, there is probably a certain percentage of people who are not earning as much as $1.35 who are living quite well.  But then there is also a percentage of people earning more than $1.35 who aren't - probably a VAST number.

What is it?  What is the number of people who, in spite of earning MORE than $1.35 / day, are still living in 'poverty'?

I don't know about you, but this fact is what I really want to know - this above fact would be a REALLY good indicator of how well our human civilization is fairing.

Just because it MAY be possible to live off $2 / day, doesn't mean people do.

I see no point in answering a question that has no merit on the conversation at hand. Furthermore poverty numbers as stated before are meaningless when presented in historical context of the natural growth or urban centers. Which BTW was something that you yourself never disputed. You mearly said that current growth are not similar to historical refrences. Course you never presented anything that proved your case which isn't suprising.

This thread is over. You have no intention of providing evidence to support your claims or provide any evidence that disproves mine calims that have evidence to back them up. Your inability to obmit your own sources that violate standard proceadures is evident of the inappropiate means in which you drew your own conclusions. Your a xealot xeno, and I see no point in trying to have an intellectural conversation with someone who cannot comprehend such complex systems.

I'll start another thread later on with the relevent questions and possiable answers at a later date with refrence material to back it up. Then hopefully you'll see what an actual conversation looks like.

meh sorry, spellcheck isn't working the way it's supposed to. You know i'm better than that 99% of the time.

The tricky, behind-the-scenes Anglo-American Empire wants to mask the real scope of human suffering, as to keep people like you in a real bubble without any hope of bursting out.

As I stated previously poverty needs to be addressed NOT on a global scale but on a country by country, city by city basis. It is the only way to accurately determine poverty rates. You keep trying to use these $1-$10 ratios and you don't realize that the AMOUNT is meaningless if the amount is sufficient for a particular region.

When you said things like "nobody can live off of $10 a day" I proved you wrong by showing you the actual cost of living in Mumbai that shows that people can live off of much less than $10 a day. The point was to try and get you off from trying to use a blanket global standard to determine global poverty. A point you obviously missed.

And you have failed to denounce your source and failed to discredit the cost of living breakdown I gave. And you have failed to denounce that the cities current economic and growth situations are out of the norm when compared to similar growth trends that were experienced in other cities around the world, specifically NYC, London, and Tokyo.

You just don't have a grasp on what the real global poverty situation looks like and don't really understand where these urban centers are going. All you see is the now, you don't see what was or what will be, it's a pity that your perception of the world is so narrow that you can't see the entire situation for what it really is.