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| next new ] 58. Re: Say that to millions more living in poverty by slavery Catch22 at Wed 31 Aug 1:01pmscore of 1 in reply to slavery comment 48 Adjusting for the increase in population does provide a better figure, but providing the raw numbers still is informative and hardly anywhere near as problematic when comparing 2004 to 2000 as it is when comparing 2004 to 1980 as you suggest. Even fully adjusted for the population slavery increase (using 291 million as the populaton at the end of 2004 and 275 million as the population at the end of 2000) there are still 4 million more in poverty today than there would have been if the rate had remained stagnant. Not only is it not "completely out of context," in fact roughly speaking, 6 million is probably pretty close to the difference of the normal trend over time had continued that you noted over the last 50 years. How ever you count it, you are still talking over a million new people in poverty every year since 2000 even after adjusting for the population increase.
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